Reacting to the criticism over his "Aurangzeb wasn't cruel" remark, SP leader and MLA Abu Azmi said that "if Aurangzeb had destroyed temples, he also destroyed mosques." "Had he been against Hindus, 34% of Hindus wouldn't have been with him, and his advisors would not have been Hindus," he added. No need to give Hindu-Muslim angles to it, he stated.