Reacting to AIMIM leader Imtiaz Jaleel's "AIMIM would spread colour green across Maharashtra" remark, Maharashtra Minister Nitesh Rane said, "Jaleel should go to Aurangzeb's tomb and dream." Rane called him a "green snake" and added, "This is a Hindu Rashtra, and anyone who tries to turn the Hindu Rashtra green will be buried by Maharashtra’s Hindus next to Aurangzeb’s grave."