Memorials can't protect people: AIMIM

Aurangabad, March 21

AIMIM’s Maharashtra unit head MP Imtiyaz Jaleel said memorials could not protect people in times of a pandemic which was why it was important to build hospitals instead. Funds allotted for constructing memorials should be utilised for building hospitals, he stressed.

Taking to Twitter, Jaleel said, “No smarak (memorial) of any leader would protect you in times like these! Hospitals will! That’s why I am opposing memorial building and instead asking for hospitals to be made with that money (sic).” He had earlier warned the Uddhav Thackeray-led government that he would move the court if public money was used on memorials and suggested that political leaders must donate funds for the same.

Jaleel represents the Aurangabad constituency where memorials of BJP leader Gopinath Munde and Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray are slated to be raised. PTI