Mohammad Azharuddin's Plans For Telangana Assembly Elections

Former Indian cricket captain and Congress leader Mohammad Azharuddin is all set to make his next innings in electoral politics. Azharuddin, a former Member of Parliament from Uttar Pradesh”s Moradabad, is the current working president of the Telangana Congress party. One of the most successful cricketer of all time, Azharuddin has announced that he will contest the upcoming Telangana assembly elections from Hyderabad.

Azharuddin told news agency ANI that the Congress party is doing well the state right now and that he is confident of winning the election.

“Congress is doing well. The trends are in favour of our party. We will have to work really hard in this election”, he told ANI.

When asked if the Congress party has set a target for the number of seats it hopes to win, Azharuddin said that they have not set any targets. He said that it is too early to say how many seats the party will win and that it will depend on the outcome of the election.

“We have not set a target. A lot of people are saying we will win xy seats, but it will be known only after election. I will contest from Hyderabad,” he added.

In a recent interview given to Hyderabad based Deccan Chronicle news paper, the cricketer-turned-politician has said that he prefers to contest the elections from Jubilee Hills.

Azharuddin had previously won the Lok Sabha elections from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh in 2009 and and lost in his second innings when contested from Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan in 2014.

The assembly elections in Telangana are scheduled to be held in December 2023.