20 Facts About Imtiyaz Jaleel

In 2019 General Elections, Jaleel was elected as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Aurangabad Lok Sabha Constituency.

Imtiyaz Jaleel was elected as member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Aurangabad Central constituency in 2014.

Imtiyaz Jaleel is the state president of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen in Maharashtra as well as a member of the Standing Committee of the Urban Development.

Imtiyaz Jaleel's father was a civil surgeon and his brother is a manager at Jet Airways.

Imtiyaz Jaleel married Roomi Fatema on 8 July 1993, with whom he has two sons.

Imtiyaz Jaleel completed both his Master of Business Administration and Master of Mass Communication and Journalism from Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University.

Imtiyaz Jaleel entered politics in 2014 when he contested assembly seat from Aurangabad Central assembly constituency for All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen.

Imtiyaz Jaleel started his campaign 22 days before the polling and defeated the sitting Shiv Sena legislator Pradeep Jaiswal by a margin of around 20,000 votes.

On 23 April 2015, under the leadership of Imtiaz Imtiyaz Jaleel, MIM won 25 seats in the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation elections.

On 14 October 2017, Imtiyaz Jaleel had filed a public interest litigation before the Aurangabad bench of Bombay high court, seeking direction to the state government to allot seven acres of land to build a 200-bed hospital for women and children in Aurangabad.

Imtiyaz Jaleel won the Aurangabad Lok Sabha seat defeating the four-time sitting MP from the Shiv Sena, Chandrakant Khaire, with a slim margin of 4,492 vote.

Imtiyaz Jaleel took a stance against financial scams plaguing cooperative banks and societies.

Imtiyaz Jaleel urged the authorities to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the operations of Adarsh Nagari Credit Society and Malkapur Urban Cooperative Bank.

Imtiyaz Jaleel was honoured with the '15th News makers Achievers Awards 2023' in the 'Best Working Politician' category on 1 May 2023 at Yashwant Rao Chavan Auditorium, Mumbai.

Imtiyaz Jaleel played a key role in modernising the Aurangabad Passport Seva Kendra, which initially had lengthy processing times.

Imtiyaz Jaleel played a pivotal role in the establishment of a 400-bed women and neonatal hospital in Aurangabad.

In 2017, Imtiyaz Jaleel filed a Public Interest Litigation that prompted the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court to intervene in the stalled project, originally sanctioned in 2013 but delayed due to lack of available land.

Imtiyaz Jaleel expressed satisfaction with this progress, noting that the high court would monitor the hospital's development.

In February 2019, on the occasion of Shivaji Jayanti, Imtiyaz Jaleel said Shivaji was a secular leader who stood for communal harmony but history books had been distorted to show him as anti Muslim.

On 11 June 2022, while protesting against the controversial statement of Nupur Sharma against Prophet Muhammad, Imtiyaz Jaleel said she should be hanged here in Aurangabad.