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Updated: 28 Mar 2016 11:43 am

Arif Mohammad Khan, a minister then, quit the Congress in 1986 in protest against the government’s handling of the Shah Bano case. After Khan was asked to defend the Supreme Court judgement in favour of relief to divorced Muslim women, the Congress government had backed out under pressure from the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board. Khan later joined the BJP for a short while, but for the last 11 years, he has not been attached to any political party. He supports the suspension of AIMIM MLA Waris Pathan in the Maharashtra Assembly, in an interview with Bula Devi:

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