An Abdul has won a US Senate seat, and Asaduddin Owaisi wants UP's Abduls to stop laying carpets for political leaders and start winning seats themselves. Using the victory of Abdul El-Sayed, who became the first Muslim senator, the AIMIM chief has sharpened his attack on the SP and Congress.Asaduddin Owaisi hailed Abdul El-Sayed's US Senate victory and urged Muslims in UP to strengthen their political identity. (AI-edit/ PTI/ File) An Abdul has won a seat in the US Senate.

And AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi now wants the Abduls of Uttar Pradesh (UP) to stop laying carpets for leaders and start winning seats themselves.Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday rejoiced over Democrat Abdul El-Sayed's historic victory in the US Senate election, and used his Abdul metaphor to renew his call for independent Muslim political leadership in UP, even as he sharpened his attacks on the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Congress.Abdul El-Sayed's victory in Michigan, where he defeated a Republican candidate backed by President Donald Trump, has made him the first Muslim elected to the US Senate. Drawing a parallel with UP, Owaisi said it was time for the state's "Abdul" to strengthen his political identity.

The Abdul metaphor has been Owaisi's one of the sharpest weapons for his attacks on the SP and the Congress. In the run-up to the UP polls, Owaisi has used the metaphor, and slammed the treatment of Muslims vote bank by the two parties, who he alleged didn't give the community the opportunities to lead.Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, 42, defeated Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan in the November 3 midterm elections.

According to Reuters, El-Sayed's victory kept the seat with the Democrats after the retirement of Senator Gary Peters, who had represented Michigan since 2015. Abdul El-Sayed's victory came amid significant Democratic gains in the midterm elections, which dealt a setback to US President Donald Trump's Republican Party.

El-Sayed's win is particularly significant because his Muslim identity, his support for the Palestinian cause and opposition to US military aid to Israel, had become a contentious issue during the campaign. Republicans had questioned his political and religious affiliations.

Michigan voted for Trump in the 2024 presidential election. Now, the people of the state made El-Sayed the first Muslim to be elected to the Senate.WHAT OWAISI SAID ABOUT ABDUL'S US SENATE VICTORYOn Wednesday (November 4), Owaisi used El-Sayed's victory to send a political message to Muslims in Uttar Pradesh, where Assembly elections are due in a few months, in 2027. "One Abdul has won in Michigan.

Now, Abdul in Uttar Pradesh must strengthen his political identity. The Sanghis have tried very hard to turn 'Abdul' into a taunt.

The time has come to show that Abdul is subservient to none but Allah. We will no longer lay carpets," Owaisi posted on X.While Owaisi's use of the Abdul metaphor after El-Sayed's victory was directed at the "Sanghis", he used it to revive his attack on the SP and Congress, whom he has repeatedly accused of depending on Muslim votes without allowing sufficient leadership from the community to emerge.

While some BJP leaders have used "Abdul" as a coded reference to Muslim men, often to portray them negatively, Owaisi has turned the slur into a symbol of Muslim political assertion.It is for the Congress and the SP that the AIMIM chief has used the Abdul metaphor to attack the SP and the Congress in the run-up to the UP polls.Owaisi's latest Abdul remarks follow a series of attacks on the SP and Congress during his October campaign in Uttar Pradesh. At a rally in Tanda in Rampur district on October 18, Owaisi declared that Muslims should produce their own political leaders. "Abdul will become a leader, an MLA, an MP," he said, according to PTI."We will no longer make any Nehru, Gandhi, or any Yadav our leader.

Young men and women standing in our ranks will become leaders," Owaisi said.A week later, on October 25, Owaisi sharpened his attack on SP chief Akhilesh Yadav during a rally in Kairana. "Akhilesh Yadav, the name of your party should be changed from Samajwadi to Samajwadi Yadav Parivar," he said, according to ANI.HOW ABDUL WON US ELECTIONSAbdul El-Sayed, a former public health official, defeated Trump-backed Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan's November 3 Senate election. The son of Egyptian immigrants became the first Muslim elected to the US Senate, overcoming attacks on his religious identity, religious and geopolitical leanings and questions over his loyalty to America.After El-Sayed defeated the Democratic establishment's preferred candidate, Haley Stevens, in the August primary, Republicans intensified their attacks on him.

According to the Associated Press, the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC spent nearly $30 million opposing him during the primary, largely over his criticism of Israel.Trump personally targeted El-Sayed at an October 25 rally in Michigan, calling him a "jihadist" and claiming he was "on the side of the terrorists". Trump also said El-Sayed would "have to go through a metal detector before he's allowed to go into the Senate." Republican rival Rogers accused him of links to the Muslim Brotherhood but provided no evidence.

El-Sayed denied the allegations.El-Sayed responded to Trump at a rally in Grand Rapids the same day. "I don't even care that he remembers my whole name because he can just go on and call me 'senator' after November," he said. "I will be Senator Muhammad to you, bro."El-Sayed nevertheless won the election in Michigan, a state Trump had carried in 2024, retaining the Senate seat for the Democrats.While El-Sayed's victory has given Owaisi fresh ammunition to back his pitch ahead of the 2027 UP Assembly elections, turning the Abdul metaphor into electoral success could be a challenge for the AIMIM.The AIMIM had failed to win a single seat in the 2022 UP Assembly elections and later tried, unsuccessfully, to forge an alliance with the SP and Congress ahead of the 2027 polls. With the alliance efforts yielding no results, Owaisi turned to the "Abdul" metaphor to challenge the two parties' hold over Muslim voters and pitch independent Muslim political leadership.

After Abdul's Michigan victory, Owaisi expanded his attack on the RSS, accusing it of turning "Abdul" into a taunt.- Ends(Written by Sushim Mukul)