evidence: HYDERABAD: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) is seriously contemplating to go it alone in the ensuing elections to the West Bengal assembly. AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said he would announce the party’s decision at an appropriate time. Though the Owaisi-led party had grand plans of contesting in more constituencies, its plans went awry after Furfura Sharif cleric Abbas Siddiqui floated Indian Secular Front (ISF) and joined the Congress-Left alliance. [...] Though MIM leaders are maintaining that the party’s search for a new political ally in West Bengal is still continuing, sources said it has come to a near-end. Also Owaisi is by and large in favour of going it alone given the present political scenario in West Bengal. A senior MIM leader, who has been to West Bengal, said surveys conducted by the party members is almost complete. MIM is likely to field its candidates from select assembly constituencies located in the districts of Murshidabad, Malda, Uttar and Dakshin Dinajpur, North and South 24 Parganas. Interestingly, these districts are Congress-Left and TMC dominated areas having a large concentration of Muslim population. There are Scheduled Castes too in big numbers. AIMIM has been fielding candidates from both Muslim and Hindu communities in elections it had contested in various states.