claimed that he was also present at the meeting which he said was held “in the wee hours at Shah’s residence on September 15, 2015.”

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However, he did not clarify the place where the purported meeting took place.

Oza claimed that it was decided in the meeting that “Owaisi will spew poisonous communal speech, the script of which shall be written by Amit Shah.”

He further alleged that the recent statement by Owaisi to extend legal aid to suspected IS operatives held in Hyderabad also “appears to be part of the aforesaid strategy.”

Speaking to media persons, Oza, a lawyer at Gujarat High Court, said, “I was present in the said meeting. A detailed discussion took place and it was agreed that Owaisi shall field his candidates inLeonid Markelov

Leonid Igorevich Markelov ()  () (born 1963) is a Russian politician and lawyer, who is the former head of the Mari El republic in Russia. He took office on January 14, 2001 and resigned from office on April 6, 2017. Markelov was later arrested under suspicion of accepting bribes.

Biography 
Markelov was born to a Russian Orthodox family living in Moscow, as the only child. His father, Igor Markelov was the chief of the USSR Ministry of Agriculture, and his mother was an economist. His father died when Markelov was nine years old, leaving him solely dependent on his mother throughout most of his childhood. He was educated at the Military University of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, where he graduated with a degree