Questions have been raised over the appointment of Abdul Sattar, who was once considered close to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim in the Uddhav Thackeray government in Maharashtra's capital Mumbai. The Shiv Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana', in a report published in 1994, described Abdul Sattar as close to Dawood. This report of 25-year-old Saamna is now becoming viral on social media and Shiv Sena leaders are not being made to respond to it.

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Saamna published a report on 11 June 1994 titled 'Sheikh Sattar's close relationship with Dawood gang'. Then Abdul Sattar was in the Congress and defeated the Shiv Sena corporator in the elections. Sattar is an MLA from the Sillod region of Aurangabad district. Not only this, but Sattar was also among the MLAs who requested mercy for Yakub Memon, who was sentenced to death in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.

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Sattar left the party last year, angry over not getting a ticket from the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections. He later joined the Shiv Sena and became an MLA. CM Uddhav Thackeray has made Abdul Sattar a cabinet minister in the first cabinet expansion. There is also resentment among Shiv Sena leaders and workers. He says that it is not right to make a leader who came to the party before the election so soon. If the Aurangabad region was to be given a place in the cabinet, then three-time MLA Sanjay Shirsat should have been made a minister.

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