On home pitch, Mohammed Azharuddin bats against BRS yorker, AIMIM googly
BRS and AIMIM rivals in his home pitch Jubilee Hills as Congress candidate in the Telangana assembly elections.
Azharuddin, now 60, is no newcomer to the electoral battles.
He has a 1-1 record in his two outings in Lok Sabha polls, both on away-from-home grounds. The famed wristy cricket genius won on the Congress ticket from Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad in 2009 before losing from Rajasthan's Tonk-Sawai Madhopur in 2014.
Now Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) working president, Azharuddin has a tough match in hand in his first assembly poll, from the upscale Jubilee Hills to where he moved in many years ago as a demonstration of his successful career and manifold achievements.
He has a formidable opponent in the multi-term sitting MLA Maganti Gopinath of BRS who is an entrenched politician well-versed in the local politics and its demands.
Adding to the ex-cricketer's task is the intriguing decision of the Asaduddin Owaizi-led AIMIM to field local corporator Mohd Rashed Farazuddin as a candidate in a constituency that has about 120,000 Muslims in its total 340,000 electorate.
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- AIMIM had not fielded a candidate here in the last elections, and the buzz is that the party's entry this time may be aimed at dividing the Muslim
