The fact that the BJP regime has an understanding with AIMIM is made obvious by the fact that the ruling dispensation at the Centre has taken little action against Akbaruddin Owaisi, the younger brother of AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi, who had famously said all Hindus would be massacred if only the police could be removed for just 15 minutes. Earlier his brother had mounted a what-about kind of defence saying no action is ever taken against the Bajrang Dal when it makes similar statements but now the two parties seem to have become partners in arms.According to Dr Sunil Deshmukh, who recently quit the BJP to rejoin the Congress, the local BJP bigwig Pravin Poote has been funding the city AIMIM president to create disturbances and the miscreants are almost always shipped from nearby towns and villages to foment trouble before disappearing away. The BJP, despite being in power both in the state and the Centre, was virtually swept out of Nanded in 2017 which is the home turf of former chief minister and current MVA minister Ashok Chavan. Nanded is in Marathwada, the former fiefdom of the Nizam of Hyderabad, and has a substantial Muslim population. Malegaon in western Maharashtra has a majority Muslim population, Amravati is demographically like the rest of India.
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