India, Jan. 8 -- All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi condemned the recent attack on the party's Maharashtra unit president Imtiaz Jaleel amid the ongoing election campaigns for the upcoming local body polls, and said that people of Aurangabad will respond by voting for his party.

"This cowardly act has been done by those who can clearly see their defeat. The people of this ward and Aurangabad will respond by pressing the 'Kite' symbol. We have asked the administration to unmask those who are behind this," Owaisi told reporters here.

Earlier in the day, Owaisi held a roadshow from Azad Chowk to Buddhi Lane in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and met locals while campaigning for candidates his party has fiel...