IUML to field 37 candidates in Assembly polls

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has announced that it would contest 37 seats in the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections scheduled for May this year.

There are 224 seats in the Karnataka Assembly. IUML are major players in the north of Karnataka, where the Muslim population is sizeable in number. “We will field candidates wherever minorities make up more than 17 percent.

We have already put in efforts over the same. Ward wise meetings are being formed. God willing, we will contest. We have already identified 37 constituencies. So we will file 37 nominations in as many constituencies,” IUML Karnataka president N Javedullah said.