Lucknow, June 23 -- The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has decided to contest next year's Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. The party has also started inviting applications from the candidates willing to contest the elections.

Meanwhile, some of the political experts have started predicting that the decision of AIMIM will not only benefit Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the election but will also help the saffron party in returning to power for the second term in Uttar Pradesh.

Well-known Indian journalist Abhisar Sharma has said that although there is no evidence that AIMIM is contesting the Assembly elections to help BJP, the Hyderabad-based party's participation in the polls will lead to communalization of the campaig...