Owaisi names Chandrashekhar Aazad as Uttar Pradesh CM face of Samajik Parivartan Morcha

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Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM and Chandrashekhar Azad’s Azad Samaj Party (Kanshiram) announced ‘Samajik Parivartan Morcha’ ahead of U.P. Assembly polls at a joint press conference in Lucknow on Thursday, November 12, 2026. | Photo Credit: ANI

Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM and Chandrashekhar Azad’s Azad Samaj Party (Kanshiram) announced ‘Samajik Parivartan Morcha’ ahead of U.P. Assembly polls at a joint press conference in Lucknow on Thursday (November 12, 2026).

Mr. Owaisi says, “We have decided to form Samajik Parivartan Morcha. I can say with confidence this will be a strong Morcha to stop the BJP from coming to power in UP for the third time.”

“If SP, Congress or any other party wants to join us to stop BJP from coming to power, we are open to it,” said the Nagina MP Mr. Azad. Mr. Owaisi announced that Mr. Azad will be SPM coalition’s CM face in U.P. 2027 election.

“I am happy to announce that our brother Chandrashekhar Aazad will be the chief president of the SPM and its chief ministerial candidate in Uttar Pradesh,” Mr. Owaisi said.

Mr. Owaisi said the alliance would focus on issues concerning backward and Dalit communities, the oppressed and marginalised sections, irrespective of their caste, alleging that these communities had so far been used merely as vote banks by political parties.

He said the morcha would raise issues such as the deteriorating condition of education, unemployment among the State’s youth and problems faced by farmers.

The alliance between the two parties could pave the way for a first declared non-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), non-Congress political front in Uttar Pradesh, with both parties considered marginal players eyeing to consolidate Scheduled Caste (SC) and minority voters in the politically crucial state.

“The alliance will be aiming to focus on Dalit and minority voters, as both leaders since long are associated with these vote blocks, but getting votes or winning your own seat and making your candidates victorious is a different issue,” said Asad Rizvi, a political analyst based in Lucknow, adding that the State is increasingly transforming into bipolar politics, between NDA and INDIA bloc, and it would be a huge challenge for the new alliance to make an impact.

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