Overview
- At a Nanded rally, the AIMIM chief urged voters to reject the BJP, Ajit Pawar’s NCP and Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena in the Nanded-Waghala polls.
- He alleged the recently passed Waqf Act is being used to lock mosques and deny Waqf ownership of century-old dargahs, with control moving to the ASI.
- AIMIM is contesting 37 of 81 seats in the municipal corporation, with voting scheduled for January 15.
- Invoking the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, he cited last year’s Bombay High Court acquittals and said long jail terms for Muslim accused showed a failure of justice.
- In a separate Maharashtra rally, he told voters to take cash offered by parties and use it for toilets if they consider such payments unethical.