Aimim imtiyaz jaleel white biography

Bookmark stories for easy access on any device or the Swarajya app. Come , the electoral fight over Aurangabad Lok Sabha seat has become even tougher with five major candidates in the fray. Apart from this, the Maratha activist Harshwardhan Jadhav is also in the fray once again. According to them, a large number of voters share the feeling that back in , splitting of Hindu votes on caste lines with the sizeable Maratha votes having gone to the independent candidate Jadhav had led to the victory of a Muslim candidate like Jaleel.

However, the other prevailing narrative states that Jaleel can still manage to give a tough fight and if things work out in his favour, win again, considering the tricky social arithmetic of the constituency. As per an aggregate of the three segments which collectively make up Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar city, Muslims count for 31 percent while neo-Buddhists count for 15 per cent of the the city's population.

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This is as per the figures from the census. Swarajya interviewed him a few days before the last day of campaigning on issues ranging from his stance on renaming of Aurangabad to Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar to the water supply issue that has persisted in the constituency for many years now. The Aurangabad Lok Sabha seat will go for polls in the fourth phase on 13 May.

Here is an edited version of the interview:. In your Lok Sabha debut in , it is said that you had won due to massive splitting of votes and VBA parading its Dalit vote bank behind you. It was a quadrangular fight then. This time, with VBA parting ways, it seems to be a five-fold fight. How challenging is the upcoming election for you?

Considering the work I have done and the kind of response I am getting from the voters, I am confident of winning from this seat once again.