On Saturday night, Baba Ziauddin Siddique, 66, was shot next to his vehicle as he was leaving his son’s workplace. Later, he passed away in the hospital.
A political blame game has been triggered by the murder of Siddique, a prominent politician who was a member of the coalition ruling Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital.
Although the murder’s motive is yet unknown, many people have been reminded of the 1990s, when Mumbai’s mafia regularly targeted politicians and movie stars.
Investigations are ongoing, according to police, who have so far taken three persons into custody. According to local media sources, the men who were arrested are involved in it.
Baba Siddique was who?
Siddique was born in the eastern state of Bihar and moved to Mumbai with his watchmaker father when he was five years old.
He began his political career with the Congress party in the 1980s as a student activist and quickly rose to become the head of its youth wing in Mumbai. Before winning three consecutive seats in the state assembly and serving as a minister for around four years in 2004, he first entered municipal council politics.
He quit the Congress in February to join the Nationalist Congress Party, which currently controls the state along with the Shiv Sena and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
