Despite receiving a show-cause notice from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), party MLA Sangram Jagtap has once again targeted the Muslim community in Ahilyanagar, alleging that “jihadis” were responsible for cases involving the abuse of Hindu women.

“In 100 cases of atrocities against Hindu women, all the accused are jihadis. Some people among us are supporting these jihadis. If we study assault cases, you will find that all of them involve Hindu women as victims, and the accused are all jihadis,” he said during a rally organised in Ghargaon village of Sangamner taluka on Monday. The ‘Jankrosh Morcha’ was organised to protest the alleged assault on a tribal woman.

The mobile numbers of women are sought under the guise of giving them bakery products, he further alleged. “This leads to

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