Uttar Pradesh: With eye on Lok Sabha polls, BJP reaches out to Pasmanda Muslims
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By PTI
LUCKNOW: Aiming to win all 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP is sharpening its outreach amongst numerically robust Pasmanda Muslims, which have benefitted from authorities schemes like free ration and housing.
The BJP, which following a state-level Pasmanda Muslim meet is planning to carry comparable capabilities in all civic physique areas, claims after social and financial empowerment of this part, it is working for his or her political uplift.
In Pasmanda Muslim meets, the BJP leaders are highlighting that the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and the Congress all the time used Muslims as a “vote bank” and didn’t give them their due.
The BJP’s recreation plan to draw Pasmanda Muslims is seen because the begin of the celebration’s second consecutive time period in UP because it inducted Danish Azad Ansari, hailing from the neighborhood, as the only Muslim minister within the state cabinet.
Ansari advised PTI, “Central and state governments have done economic and social empowerment of Muslims so far. The BJP now wants political empowerment of Muslims by ensuring their participation.”
The widespread Muslims are getting advantages of presidency schemes like free ration and housing with out discrimination and it’s their ethical duty to face with them, he stated.
The president of the Uttar Pradesh BJP’s minority wing, Kunwar Basit Ali, stated, “This time strong and trusted Muslim BJP workers will be given tickets in the urban local bodies from places where we have never won elections and where the BJP has never contested.”
“We have planned that people from different fraternities of Pasmanda Muslim will hold conferences in their societies and BJP leaders will participate in these to convey to them party’s ideology and government’s plans,” Ali stated.
“The BJP government has done as much as it could for the Pasmanda Muslims. Now, it has to take it from them,” he stated.
“The government has given benefits of its schemes to 4. 5 crore Muslims in UP, they have been made a minister, head of minority commission, president of Urdu Academy, 80 per cent share to Pasmanda Muslims in various commissions and morchas of the government,” he stated.
Asked concerning the change of angle in direction of Muslims, Ali stated, “Most benefits of the government’s schemes have also been given to Muslims.”
In Uttar Pradesh, 85 per cent of the Muslim inhabitants belongs to the Pasmanda neighborhood. The Pasmanda neighborhood has 41 castes, together with Ansari, Qureshi, Mansoori, Salmani and Siddiqui.
This class is taken into account to be probably the most backward in social, financial and political phrases. Muslim voters maintain affect in 72 meeting and 14 Lok Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh.
Given the variety of Pasmanda Muslims, if a celebration will get the assist of this part, it may make a distinction within the outcomes.
According to the CSDS-Lokniti survey, eight per cent Muslim voters had voted for the BJP within the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections held earlier this 12 months, which was one per cent greater than the 2017 determine.
The BJP snatched SP bastions of Azamgarh and Rampur, having robust presence of Muslim voters, within the byelections not too long ago, giving it a brand new confidence to make inroads among the many minority neighborhood members.
Meanwhile, the BJP’s try to deliver the Pasmanda Muslims into its fold has been termed as futile by the opposition.
SP MP from Sambhal, Shafiqur Rahman Barq, questioned why the BJP, which is spreading communal hatred within the nation, has instantly began liking the Muslims. The complete matter is concerning the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, he stated.
“No matter how hard BJP tries, no true Muslim will vote for it,” he stated.
Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Shahnawaz Alam took a jibe on the BJP’s efforts, saying “After BJP governments’ stand on hijab and other traditions associated with Muslims, they are not going to get their votes.”
He stated the BJP is claiming that it has supplied advantages of presidency schemes to the Pasmanda Muslims however the floor actuality is completely different.
The BJP authorities snatched the livelihood of the Qureshi neighborhood coming from the Pasmanda part. Apart from this, the plight of weavers just isn’t hidden from anybody, the Congress chief stated.
However, the state president of the All-India Pasmanda Muslim Mahaj, Wasim Raini, accused the SP, BSP and the Congress of all the time betraying the Pasmanda Muslims.
“If Pasmandas are getting some relief from somewhere, then shouldn’t they go there,” Raini requested.
LUCKNOW: Aiming to win all 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP is sharpening its outreach amongst numerically robust Pasmanda Muslims, which have benefitted from authorities schemes like free ration and housing.
The BJP, which following a state-level Pasmanda Muslim meet is planning to carry comparable capabilities in all civic physique areas, claims after social and financial empowerment of this part, it is working for his or her political uplift.
In Pasmanda Muslim meets, the BJP leaders are highlighting that the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and the Congress all the time used Muslims as a “vote bank” and didn’t give them their due.
The BJP’s recreation plan to draw Pasmanda Muslims is seen because the begin of the celebration’s second consecutive time period in UP because it inducted Danish Azad Ansari, hailing from the neighborhood, as the only Muslim minister within the state cabinet.
Ansari advised PTI, “Central and state governments have done economic and social empowerment of Muslims so far. The BJP now wants political empowerment of Muslims by ensuring their participation.”
The widespread Muslims are getting advantages of presidency schemes like free ration and housing with out discrimination and it’s their ethical duty to face with them, he stated.
The president of the Uttar Pradesh BJP’s minority wing, Kunwar Basit Ali, stated, “This time strong and trusted Muslim BJP workers will be given tickets in the urban local bodies from places where we have never won elections and where the BJP has never contested.”
“We have planned that people from different fraternities of Pasmanda Muslim will hold conferences in their societies and BJP leaders will participate in these to convey to them party’s ideology and government’s plans,” Ali stated.
“The BJP government has done as much as it could for the Pasmanda Muslims. Now, it has to take it from them,” he stated.
“The government has given benefits of its schemes to 4. 5 crore Muslims in UP, they have been made a minister, head of minority commission, president of Urdu Academy, 80 per cent share to Pasmanda Muslims in various commissions and morchas of the government,” he stated.
Asked concerning the change of angle in direction of Muslims, Ali stated, “Most benefits of the government’s schemes have also been given to Muslims.”
In Uttar Pradesh, 85 per cent of the Muslim inhabitants belongs to the Pasmanda neighborhood. The Pasmanda neighborhood has 41 castes, together with Ansari, Qureshi, Mansoori, Salmani and Siddiqui.
This class is taken into account to be probably the most backward in social, financial and political phrases. Muslim voters maintain affect in 72 meeting and 14 Lok Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh.
Given the variety of Pasmanda Muslims, if a celebration will get the assist of this part, it may make a distinction within the outcomes.
According to the CSDS-Lokniti survey, eight per cent Muslim voters had voted for the BJP within the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections held earlier this 12 months, which was one per cent greater than the 2017 determine.
The BJP snatched SP bastions of Azamgarh and Rampur, having robust presence of Muslim voters, within the byelections not too long ago, giving it a brand new confidence to make inroads among the many minority neighborhood members.
Meanwhile, the BJP’s try to deliver the Pasmanda Muslims into its fold has been termed as futile by the opposition.
SP MP from Sambhal, Shafiqur Rahman Barq, questioned why the BJP, which is spreading communal hatred within the nation, has instantly began liking the Muslims. The complete matter is concerning the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, he stated.
“No matter how hard BJP tries, no true Muslim will vote for it,” he stated.
Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Shahnawaz Alam took a jibe on the BJP’s efforts, saying “After BJP governments’ stand on hijab and other traditions associated with Muslims, they are not going to get their votes.”
He stated the BJP is claiming that it has supplied advantages of presidency schemes to the Pasmanda Muslims however the floor actuality is completely different.
The BJP authorities snatched the livelihood of the Qureshi neighborhood coming from the Pasmanda part. Apart from this, the plight of weavers just isn’t hidden from anybody, the Congress chief stated.
However, the state president of the All-India Pasmanda Muslim Mahaj, Wasim Raini, accused the SP, BSP and the Congress of all the time betraying the Pasmanda Muslims.
“If Pasmandas are getting some relief from somewhere, then shouldn’t they go there,” Raini requested.
