All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader and MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi stirred up a hornet’s nest yet again with his reverential visit to Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb’s tomb in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad district, evoking widespread condemnations across Maharashtra’s political spectrum as the ruling Shiv Sena, the Nationalist Congress Party and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) among others slammed the AIMIM leader’s ‘provocative act’ in the “land of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.”
A five-term MLA from Chandrayangutta in Telangana, Mr. Owaisi, who has frequently courted controversy with his fiery speeches in the past, had prayed before the Mughal Emperor’s tomb in Khuldabad and laid flowers on it ahead of a function in Aurangabad on Thursday.
Following this, the ruling tripartite ‘Maha Vikas Aghadi’ coalition, particularly the Shiv Sena came down heavily on Mr. Owaisi for deliberately attempting to disturb Maharashtra’s peace with his actions, while the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanded the ruling government to show some spine and charge the AIMIM leader with sedition.
