Beneath fireplace, Abu Azmi retracts remarks on Aurangzeb

Clarifying his feedback on Aurangzeb, Azmi stated, “Once I quoted a historian’s e book about Aurangzeb, I by no means spoke in poor health of any of our nice males. But when my statements, which have been distorted, have offended anybody, I take them again. The meeting has essential work to do, and it shouldn’t be disrupted over this difficulty.”

Azmi’s retraction got here after an FIR was filed towards him at Thane’s Wagle Property police station on a criticism by Shiv Sena MP Naresh Mhaske. He was booked underneath sections 299, 302, 356(1), and 356(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), and the case has since been transferred to Marine Drive police station.

The controversy erupted when Azmi, addressing reporters in Mumbai at first of the Maharashtra meeting session, responded to Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma’s comparability of Rahul Gandhi and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to Aurangzeb.

“Aurangzeb bought a number of temples constructed. In Varanasi, he saved a Hindu woman from a priest who had an evil eye on her. He had the priest trampled by elephants,” Azmi had claimed. “I do not think about Aurangzeb a merciless ruler. Throughout that period, energy struggles had been political, not non secular. Aurangzeb’s military had many Hindus, simply as Chhatrapati Shivaji’s military had a number of Muslims.”

With company inputs