Hyderabad, April 6 -- With the first phase of elections due on April 19 uncertainty seems to be gripping All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen in Bihar. On the other hand, it is not yet clear as to how many seats would it be fighting in Uttar Pradesh where it has recently tied up with Pallavi Patel faction of Apna Dal, and a couple of little-known parties.

Confusion started on April 5 when the Times of India, quoting the Bihar unit president of AIMIM, Akhtar-ul-Iman, said that his party would be contesting only from Kishanganj in the state. Akhtar himself is the candidate of the party. He is the lone MLA of AIMIM and had fought the 2019 parliamentary election too in which he ended up third.

However, another media report published on th...