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Owaisi challenges Akhilesh Yadav over Muslim political representation

The Uttar Pradesh roundup also examines disputed Congress campaign posters and criticism of Yadav's remarks about people from neighboring Uttarakhand.

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2:59Rally footage pairs Yadav's Ravana comparison with Owaisi's response over Muslim political representation.
5:21Samajwadi Party spokespeople argue that Owaisi's attacks on the opposition benefit the BJP.
9:12Rahul Gandhi's lawyer confirms his acquittal, saying the complainant failed to prove the defamation case.
11:39Posters claiming 200 assembly seats for Congress prompt accusations of an effort to divide the opposition.
18:23Harish Rawat condemns Yadav's remarks referring to people from Uttarakhand as infiltrators.
21:00Yadav questions who the biggest infiltrators in Uttar Pradesh are and says the term needs definition.

Muslim voters should have political representation beyond Akhilesh Yadav's family, Asaduddin Owaisi argues in rally footage carried by India's Hindi-language news channel Aaj Tak. His criticism leads a broadcast examining tensions among opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state.

Owaisi, who leads the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), accuses Yadav and his family of monopolizing opportunities for Muslim representation, citing the parliamentary constituencies of Badaun and Firozabad. Yadav heads the Samajwadi Party and previously served as Uttar Pradesh's chief minister.

The report pairs Owaisi's response with footage of Yadav invoking Ravana, the antagonist of the Ramayana, changing his disguise. Owaisi says he intended to provoke Yadav into revealing hostility. Samajwadi Party spokespeople reject his intervention: Anurag Bhadouria argues that he should question the government rather than the opposition, while Fakhrul Hasan Chand accuses him of helping the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Those are the party representatives' accusations, not established findings about Owaisi's motives.

A separate segment reports Rahul Gandhi's acquittal in a Sultanpur defamation case concerning remarks about Home Minister Amit Shah. Gandhi's lawyer says the complainant failed to prove the case. The broadcast's chronology identifies the complainant as BJP politician Vijay Mishra.

The focus then turns to posters claiming 200 assembly seats for Congress in the forthcoming state election. Reporter Santosh Kumar says both Congress and the Samajwadi Party describe the posters as a BJP attempt to create division. The report does not establish who produced them.

Finally, Congress leader and former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat condemns remarks in which Yadav refers to people from Uttarakhand as "infiltrators" in Uttar Pradesh. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami also criticizes the comments. The closing footage shows Yadav questioning who the biggest "infiltrators" are and saying the term needs to be defined. The broadcast presents the dispute as another source of strain for the Congress-Samajwadi Party alliance.