Newsmaker | The remaking of Imtiaz Jaleel: From TV journalist to AIMIM firebrand | Political Pulse News,The Indian Express

The Aurangabad MP, who is the most well-known face of the party after the Owaisis, has created controversy by demanding the hanging of Nupur Sharma for her remarks about the Prophet.

He is the most well-known face of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) after the Owaisi brothers and has been known to push the envelope and enter unchartered political terrain in his eight-year career political career.

But, on Friday, the AIMIM’s Aurangabad MP Imtiaz Jaleel pushed the envelope too far when he said that if BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, who has been suspended by the party, had to be “hanged” for her derogatory remarks about the Prophet it should be done from “this very square” in the city.

Jaleel’s outburst was a marked departure from the measured words he was known to use while reporting from Maharashtra during his career in broadcast journalism. In 2014, he quit journalism and took the plunge into politics when the AIMIM was looking to expand in Aurangabad. Five years later, a livid Jaleel contemplated quitting the Owaisi-led party, and contesting as an independent, after the party leadership frowned upon his decision to contest the Lok Sabha election. However, it did not come to pass and the political firebrand helped the AIMIM win its second Lok Sabha seat, far from its power base of Hyderabad.

But what made him leave his job at news channel NDTV and join politics? In an interaction with The Indian Express in 2014 in his house in Aurangabad, Jaleel said he evaluated what he was doing with his life during a rickety four-hour drive from Bhagwangad in Beed district to Pune after covering a Pankaja Munde rally. He was 46 years old at the time.

“After looking at old women sitting in the sweltering heat of Bhagwangad, waiting for a politician to make an appearance, the inanity of what I was doing hit me. I needed to reevaluate my life and decided to quit my job during my drive back to Pune,” he said.

https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/imtiaz-jaleel-aimim-firebrand-tv-journalist-nupur-sharma-hanging-7965821/


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