While speaking to media in Mumbai on January 16, the veteran Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut spoke on Gandhi family. He said, “The respect that I have always shown towards Indira Gandhi, Pandit Nehru, Rajiv Gandhi and the Gandhi family, despite being in opposition, nobody has done it.” “Whenever people have targeted Indira Gandhi, I have stood up for her,” he added. “Many political people used to come to meet Karim Lala, times were different back then. He was a leader of the Pathan community, he had come from Afghanistan. So, people used to meet him over the problems faced by the Pathan community,” Sanjay Raut further stated.