About

BARRISTER ASADUDDIN OWAISI is an eminent parliamentarian of India and president of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen.

Born on 13th May 1969, Asaduddin Owaisi is a lawyer and Bar-at-Law from Lincoln’s Inn, London. He was elected to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Charminar Constituency in Hyderabad in 1994 and re-elected in 1999.

He was elected to the Indian Parliament (House of the People–Lok Sabha) in 2004 and re-elected in 2009 and 2014. He was elected as president of AIMIM after the demise of his father and eminent Muslim leader Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, a six-term MP and five-term legislator, in 2008.

Under Asaduddin Owaisi’s stewardship, the party won 7 Legislative Assembly seats each in 2009 and 2014 and two Legislative Council seats in 2011 in Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana State). The AIMIM also had its Mayor in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation for three years (2012-2014). The AIMIM won two Legislative Assembly seats in Maharashtra in 2014.

Asaduddin Owaisi is the Chairman of Dar-us-Salam Educational Trust (DET), founded by late Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, under the aegis of AIMIM. The DET runs a string of (minority) professional colleges in engineering, architecture, management, computer applications, medicine, pharmacy etc, for Muslim boys and girls. About 525 engineering graduates and 150 medical graduates pass out of the Deccan group of institutions every year. Thousands of out-patients, besides 2,500 in-patients, are treated at the Owaisi Hospital and Princess Esra Hospital run by DET. The DET also offers cash awards and books/schoolbags to thousands of Urdu medium students by spending Rupees 50 lakhs annually.

Apart from DET, the AIMIM has set up a cooperative bank for the minorities. Asaduddin Owaisi oversees the functioning of Darussalam Cooperative Urban Bank (DCUB), founded in September 1987 by late Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, to improve the economic condition of underprivileged sections in general and Muslim community in particular. The total deposits of DCUB have reached Rs 350 crores. The total loans and advances crossed Rs 250 crores. The total number of customers is 1.3 lakhs.

An outspoken parliamentarian, Asaduddin Owaisi has been instrumental in persuading the Indian Government to establish an exclusive Ministry of Minority Affairs to look after the welfare of religious minorities, including Muslims, in India. The Indian Government was persuaded to raise the budgetary allocations from a mere Rupees 17 crores in 2003-04 to as high as Rupees 3,711 crores in 2014-15 for minority welfare. Asaduddin Owaisi was given the 2014 Sansad Ratna Award for his distinguished performance in the 15th Lok Sabha.

Asaduddin Owaisi worked for securing four percent reservations for Socially and Educationally Backward Muslims in Andhra Pradesh in 2004. These reservations in public employment and educational institutions have benefited thousands of Muslim boys and girls in the last one decade. On persistent demand of AIMIM, the State budget for minority welfare has been raised from Rupees 45 crores in 2003-04 to Rupees 1,033 crores in 2014-15.

AIMIM, under Asaduddin Owaisi’s leadership, organized relief for the 400,000 Muslims affected by communal riots in Assam and also for the people affected by landslides in Uttarakhand by spending Rupees 50 lakhs and Rupees 75 lakhs respectively.