AIMIM's Imtiaz Jaleel who won from Aurangabad Lok Sabha seat by 4,492 votes against Shiv Sena MP Chandrakant Khaire, will be Maharashtra's first non- Congress Muslim member of the Lower House.
There have been 11 Muslims members of the Lok Sabha from Maharashtra but they were all from the Congress.
Of them, Asghar Hussain and former chief minister A R Antulay had won the Lok Sabha poll twice, an election official said.
Jaleel, the journalist-turned-politician, said, "I had focused my campaign on development but the Sena has always campaigned around religious sentiments."
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