After Union Home Minister Amit Shah targeted the AIMIM, describing it as "new Nizams", the party's Lok Sabha MP Imtiaz Jaleel hit back saying people now know who behaves like Nizams.
Talking to reporters in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Jaleel also targeted the BJP-led central government, saying that although several years have passed since the abrogation of Article 370, Assembly elections have not been held in Jammu and Kashmir so far.
Shah on Tuesday addressed a rally, in which he took a swipe at the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), saying, "The entire Marathwada region was under the Nizam rule. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel liberated Marathwada from Nizam, and now it is time to liberate Sambhajinagar from the new Nizams."
Talking to reporters soon after Shah's remarks, Jaleel said, "People know who is behaving like Nizam now. Razakars tried to weaken and break the country in their times. Now, people know very well who is doing this." "Nizams are now gone...I belong to this soil," he added.
The Razakars were an armed militia of the Nizam of Hyderabad. They tried to brutally put down a revolt by peasants opposed to the Nizam's decision to not merge with India following Independence.
The Hyderabad state included parts of the present-day Telangana, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
Jaleel also criticized Shah for talking about the abrogation of Article 370.
"People here have nothing to do with Article 370...At the time of abrogation, it was said that elections will be held in Kashmir. But three years have passed now...," he said.
Jaleel had defeated undivided Shiv Sena's Chandrakant Khaire, who was supported by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Aurangabad, now known as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
