3 opponents pose challenge to Jaleel

The Aurangabad Lok Sabha constituency i is made up of six Assembly seats, of which three each are held by the Mahayuti partner Shiv Sena, two by BJP and one is with MVA ally Shiv Sena UBT)

A traditional bastion of the Congress and Shiv Sena (undivided), the minority-dominated Aurangabad Lok Sabha seat delivered a huge political stunner in 2019 when it elected Imtiaz Jaleel of the Telangana-based All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul limeen (AIMIM).

MusOvercoming the Prime Minister Narendra Modi 'wave' that year, the 97-yearold party got its first MP outside Telangana, and Aurangabad sent its second Muslim representative to the Lok Sabha since 1952. The first minority candidate elected to the Lok Sabha in 1980 from Aurangabad was the Congress' Qazi Saleem, a renowned Urdu poet, though the region has a 31 per cent Muslim population, which can make or break any party's chances.