Dubbing the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) rule in Maharashtra worse than that of Aurangzeb, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut  claimed that farmers in the state were dying because of the saffron party.

He claimed that farmers, unemployed people, and women are committing suicides in the state. “It’s been 400 years since Aurangzeb was buried. Forget him. Are farmers in Maharashtra committing suicide due to Aurangzeb? They are doing it because of you,” he said. Attacking the BJP-led Mahayuti government in Maharashtra, Raut said, If the Mughal ruler committed atrocities, then what is the government doing? he asked.

But it has to be done under legal purview, as the previous Congress regime put the site under the Archaeological Survey of India’s protection, Fadnavis had said. BJP’s Satara MP Udayanraje Bhosale, a descendant of Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, had sought the removal of Aurangzeb’s tomb located in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district.