Jaleel was born and raised in Aurangabad to Syed Abdul Jaleel and Zakiya Jaleel. His father was a civil surgeon and his brother is a Jet Airways manager. Jaleel married Roomi Fatema on 8 July 1993, with whom he has two sons. Jaleel completed both his Master of Business Administration and Master of Mass Communication and Journalism from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University. Jaleel has 23 years of experience in journalism ‒ 11 years with Lokmat and near 12 years with NDTV. He entered politics in 2014. In 2014, he entered in the field of politics and became MLA Played A Muslim community card. After getting the candidature of Lok Sabha From AIMIM A Redical Islamic Political Party. he made an accurat Muslim Community Vote Covering planning for the elections and gained the post of MP With 32% Vote Share And Won Just 500 Lead Vote Against Shivsena Candidate.
Political career
The Aurangabad central assembly constituency was the stronghold of Shiv Sena. There was no alliance between Sena and BJP and hence he was confident to get benefit of the Muslim votes here. The Muslim activists supported him in the elections and worked wholeheartedly. The differences between the Sena and BJP candidates benefited Jaleel and he became MLA in 2014. On 23 April 2015, MIM registered an impressive performance under the leadership of Imtiyaz Jaleel, winning 25 seats in the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation elections in its maiden outing there. During DPDC meeting which was held on 29 January 2015, Imtiyaz Jaleel raised the issue of costly MRI charges at the government-run hospital in Aurangabad. Then District Guardian Minister Ramdas Kadam directed GMCH authorities to reduce the charges of MRI scan from Rs 1,800 to Rs 700. On 14 October 2017, Imtiyaz Jaleel had filed a public interest litigation before the Aurangabad bench of Bombay high court, seeking direction to the state government to allot seven acres of land to build a 200-bed hospital for women and children there. The court had directed the state and district administration to file a reply within six months. On 26 March 2019, MIM decided to contest Aurangabad Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra in alliance with the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi led by Prakash Ambedkar. MIM President Asaduddin Owaisi has picked Imtiyaz Jaleel, as the party candidate. The election commission of India declared the schedule for the Lok Sabha elections 2019. MIM decided to support the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi formed by Prakash Ambedkar. MLA Jaleel decided to contest the election. The MIM president Owaisi was reluctant with his decision but the MIM corporators and leaders succeeded in convincing him. Jaleel made a meticulous planning in just 28 days. In a closely fought battle, the AIMIM candidate, Syed Imtiyaz Jaleel, won the Aurangabad Lok Sabha constituency seat by defeating four-time MP Chandrakant Khaire by 4,492 votes. In the final round Jaleel secured 3,89,042 votes while his nearest rival and NDA candidate Khaire 3,84,550 votes. Congress candidate Subhash Zambad got 91,789 votes and Independent Harshvardhan Jadhav polled 2,83,798 votes.
Awards and Recognition
Imtiyaz Jaleel, was selected by the British High Commission for a study tour to London for young political leaders. The commission has selected 12 young political leaders from different parties from across the country for the week long programme aimed at future political leaders. Interestingly, Imtiyaz Jaleel was the only politician from Maharashtra to be selected for the tour. On 8 September 2016, city based NGO Nayodya Dnyan prasarak Mandal had honoured Imtiyaz Jaleel with "Best MLA" Aurangabad ever had at a function attended by Dalit and Muslim activists in a large number.
Controversy
On 12 February 2017, Imtiyaz Jaleel called for an investigation into the Pune police's denial of AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi permission to hold a rally in Pune. When Taslima Nasreen had flown in Aurangabad on 31 July 2017 to visit Ajanta and Ellora caves. The Muslims in Aurangabad felt offensive and led by MLA Imtiyaz Jaleel, a group of Muslims protested outside the Aurangabad airport. After the backlash from protesters, Aurangabad police itself stopped the controversial author from stepping out of the airport and advised her to go back. In June 2019, Jaleel accused Aurangabad Mayor Nandkumar Ghodele of spending Rs 19.93 lakh on photographs and videos between 29 October 2017 and 31 December 2018, a time when the civic body did not have enough money to pay salary to its employees and contractors.
