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Owaisi and Azad form Samajik Parivartan Morcha for UP polls

AIMIM and Azad Samaj Party announce pre-poll alliance for 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.

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Published

What this story says

  • Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM and Chandrashekhar Azad's Azad Samaj Party have formed a pre-poll alliance called the Samajik Parivartan Morcha.
  • The alliance intends to contest the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
  • Chandrashekhar Azad has been named as the chief ministerial candidate for the new political front.
  • The announcement was made at a joint press conference in Lucknow.

Who covered it

Left 17%(1)Centre 16%(1)Right 67%(4)

Percentages are shares of the 6 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 7 of the 13 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

42/100

Craft

57/100

Hype

41/100

13 sources · methodology

Thin on the left so far

Only 1 of the 6 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

Asaduddin Owaisi's All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and Chandrashekhar Azad's Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) have formed a pre-poll alliance. The new political front, named the Samajik Parivartan Morcha, was announced on Thursday in Lucknow. The alliance plans to contest the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.

Chandrashekhar Azad has been projected as the chief ministerial candidate for the Samajik Parivartan Morcha. The announcement was made at a joint press conference attended by both Owaisi and Azad. The alliance is positioned as an alternative to the BJP, according to reports.

Coverage

What the coverage left out

None of the right-rated digests mention that the alliance is positioned as an alternative to the BJP, a detail reported by unrated outlets. No left- or centre-rated outlets covered this story.

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 3 times, most recently on 12 Nov 2026, 14:45, and will add the sides that appear.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

1 rated outlet

We have not written our reading of the left coverage of this story. The left-rated outlets that ran it are listed below.

Centre

1 rated outlet

We have not written our reading of the centre coverage of this story. The centre-rated outlets that ran it are listed below.

Right

4 rated outlets

  • The Times of India reported that AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi and MP Chandrashekhar Azad have joined forces to create the Samajik Parivartan Morcha for the 2027 UP elections. It stated that Azad is the designated chief ministerial candidate. The report also noted that the coalition invites partnerships with the Samajwadi Party and Congress. This digest also mentioned retail inflation reaching 6.09% and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's situation.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Owaisi and Azad form Samajik Parivartan Morcha for UP polls?
Of the 6 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 17% are rated left, 16% are rated centre, 67% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 13. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Owaisi and Azad form Samajik Parivartan Morcha for UP polls left or right?
Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 6 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
Is the coverage of Owaisi and Azad form Samajik Parivartan Morcha for UP polls biased?
Owaisi and Azad form Samajik Parivartan Morcha for UP polls is one event reported by 13 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Owaisi and Azad form Samajik Parivartan Morcha for UP polls?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Owaisi and Azad form Samajik Parivartan Morcha for UP polls?
13 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What is the Samajik Parivartan Morcha?
The Samajik Parivartan Morcha is a pre-poll alliance formed by Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM and Chandrashekhar Azad's Azad Samaj Party. It was announced in Lucknow and plans to contest the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
Who is the chief ministerial candidate for the new alliance?
Chandrashekhar Azad has been projected as the chief ministerial candidate for the Samajik Parivartan Morcha. The announcement was made at a joint press conference by the leaders of the two allied parties.
Which elections will the Samajik Parivartan Morcha contest?
The Samajik Parivartan Morcha has announced its intention to contest the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. The alliance aims to present an alternative political front in the state.

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13 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

Left

1

Centre

1

Right

4

Not rated

7

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