Maharashtra MLA Abu Azmi suspended from assembly over Aurangzeb remark | India News

NEW DELHI: Maharashtra MLA and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Abu Azmi was suspended from the state assembly on Wednesday over his controversial remark on Mughal tyrant Aurangzeb. Azmi has been suspended until the top of Maharashtra’s ongoing finances session.
Azmi’s assertion stroked an issue after he had claimed that India flourished underneath Aurangzeb’s reign.
Last week, throughout an interview, Azmi stated Aurangzeb shouldn’t be seen merely as a merciless ruler, however relatively as an incredible administrator who additionally constructed temples. He had additionally stated that in Aurangzeb’s reign, India’s border reached Afghanistan and Burma (now Myanmar).
“Also, I do not believe that the battle between Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj and Aurangzeb was not about religion; it was a political battle,” he added.
Later, the Maharashtra Samajwadi Party chief apologised for his remark however on the similar time justified the assertion saying he solely stated what the historians and the writers have already stated in regards to the Mughal ruler and that it was in no method towards Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj or Sambhaji Maharaj including that his “words were twisted”.
In a sharp-worded criticism, deputy CM Eknath Shinde referred to as Azmi “traitor”.
“Azmi is a traitor and has no right to sit in the assembly. He has always been insulting Chhatrapati Shivaji and Sambhaji Maharaj,” Shinde stated.
FIRs have been registered towards Azmi for hurting non secular sentiments and defamation underneath the BNS, even because the MLA from Mankhurd-Shivaji Nagar issued a press release saying his remarks have been within the context of the movie “Chhava”, which depicts the battle between Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj and Aurangzeb.