I am of the view that BJP is a majoritarian party. There is an attempt for a majoritarian form of democracy over participatory form. It raises our anxieties because we have witnessed what happened in Sri Lanka, where the Sinhalas have put in place a majoritarian form of democracy.
Will Mr Modi rise to the occasion? He has been a pracharak of the RSS right from his youth. In his first speech in the Central Hall of Parliament, he referred to Deen Dayal Upadhyaya. What about his theory of integral humanism in which he said Muslims cannot be trusted? The RSS ideology is clearly divisive.
You judge a person by his past. Mr Modi during his campaign talked about the Gujarat model of development. Can one say development in Gujarat has been inclusive? Why is it that the Metro line has stopped just before Juhapura in Ahmedabad, dominated by Muslims? You have a gas pipeline which does not pass through Juhapura. Why is Mr Modi opposing pre-matric scholarship to minorities of Gujarat? Why did he bring in legislation making it mandatory for a person who wishes to change his religion to seek the government’s permission? The Governor did not give assent.
On the day the results were out, the Supreme Court exonerated all the boys implicated in the Akshardham case. The boys lost 11 precious years of their life, and the apex court criticised the non-application of mind by the home minister of Gujarat and the state government.
DDoesn’tthis raise anxiety? The boys said the Gujarat police had given them the option of choosing between the Haren Pandya murder case, Godhra and Akshardham. I don’t agree with the view that Atal Behari Vajpayee and L K Advani had reached out to the minorities. How can we forget what happened to Graham Staines? It was when Mr Vajpayee was Prime Minister and Mr Advani was home minister and Lok Sabha member from Gujarat that Gujarat witnessed the 2002 riots. Mr Vajpayee might have asked Mr Modi publicly to follow raj dharma but it was under his nose that everything happened. A draconian law like POTA which was passed during their tenure was used extensively against Muslims, Dalits and tribals.
It is up to the country to ponder why an Imran Masood makes an incendiary speech and loses the elections and Giriraj Singh says the same and wins. You don’t have a single Muslim MP in UP, which has 18 per cent Muslims. Why is it that in Tamil Nadu and Odisha, each of which has 10 per cent Muslims, the BJP is not doing well and in Assam where the Muslim population is 17 per cent the BJP is doing extremely well. Clearly it is because of the communal polarisation in Bihar, UP, West Bengal and Assam. Where the Muslim population is more than 15 to 16 per cent, BJP has made significant gains.
Of the 448 candidates of the BJP, not a single Muslim got elected. Poster boy Shah Nawaz Hussain lost from Bhagalpur which is 18 per cent Muslim. This time there are 21 Muslim MPs and they won not because of their party but because of the substantial presence of minorities in their constituencies. Look at the representation of Brahmins, Kshatriyas and OBCs. They have more representation than their population size.
In Karnataka, AP, including Telangana, and Maharashtra, which have 118 seats, I am the only Muslim MP. Clearly secular parties did not transfer their votes to Muslim candidates.
All Muslims should come under an umbrella of a single party which represents them and defends minority rights. Secular parties have failed to transfer their votes to Muslim candidates. Whether the Muslim League, MIM or AIUDF, it is time to have our own party. It is our responsibility to ensure that RSS ideology does not get ascendency. We are not the torchbearers of the movement for defeating the BJP. You cannot put the responsibility on me. I am not a coolie of secularism.
Mulayam Singh would not have won without the support of Muslims in Azamgarh, his daughter-in-law Dimple from Kannauj and Dharmendra Yadav, nephew, from Badaun. Let us become the masters of our destiny since all secular parties together have brought in a hardcore RSS pracharak as Prime Minister.
(The author is MP and president of All India Maj-lis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen)
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Don’t Muslims know these facts ? They had hoped against hope that the majority community would vote for unity rather than divisiveness .Who can blame the majority as well ..they’ve been fed anti-Muslim propaganda by the mainstream media..so if the police makes an arrest after a crime its publicised on the front page but when the same youth is exonerated there’s not even a whimper in the media .
You’re right Mr Owaisi..time for Muslims to form their own party just like the Dalits had done once and stop looking at secular politicians to find answers for them
You said “they have been fed anti-muslim propoganda”
…Which propoganda are you talking about…1) That muslims birth rate is much higher…OR 2) That muslims are more fanatic and rigid than other religions…As far as i know, those two truths are known worldwide and muslims have time and again demonstrated that…in fact muslims feel proud of themselves for those two… As for 1) this is undisputable proven by statistics as for 2)…Give me one muslim who has been appreciated for becoming atheist. Do you deny that the punishment for apostasy in islam is death?
Good said, but i challege u pls u make a muslim party that u hv and represent all muslims so it is good for the bjp and congres will riun forever in india.so it will 2 party .1st bjp the hindu and 2nd muslims as ur. Its very bad 4 muslims .all will polarise .as in 47.so it is good 4 bjp.
This is good time to join together with Dalit and Muslim, we all know the politics of India is depends on 3 things Language, Religion and caste, Muslim and Dalit both having good opportunity to join hand together to elect upcoming election and as per Owaisi Muslim should come under one umbrella thats good point.
Dalits are gravitating towards BJP…In fact in this recent election…3 Dalits with BJP tickets won from seats in general category. Dalits are moving to BJP and rabid rebel-rouser muslims are increasingly feeling isolated.
IC: Whatever crap came out of your mouth is nothing but anti-muslim propaganda repeated millions of times by mainstream media.
Your hate for muslims is completely obvious. May Allah guide you to the correct path(Ameen)
if it was a crap…you would rebut it with evidence…it bothers you only because it is truth… A truth which is accepted by Muslims who feel proud of associating themselves with it…A truth which alarms all non-muslims…And for you benefit i will repeat those two truths
TRUTH 1) That muslims birth rate is much higher…this is undisputable proven by statistics.
TRUTH 2) That muslims are more fanatic and rigid than other religions…Give me one muslim who has been appreciated for becoming atheist. Do you deny that the punishment for apostasy in islam is death?
IC did you have any muslim friends?????
Do you know the doctors which are trying to save life of Bal thakre, 3 out of 5 were Muslim.
Do you know the most of the guys which are leaking the secrete details to enemies of india are hindus but not muslim.
Do you know even if you want to accept that muslim population is increasing,but you did not read the news of muslim get slaughter very now and than all over india.
Do you we Muslim are serving india more than non-muslim.
so please keep your baised thought with you, try to make patch up with your country mades….. it is helpfull for every body.
@shafi…Firstly i have friends who happen to be muslims, but they are my friends regardless of whether they are muslims/hindus/Christians…Secondly my friendship should not have any bearing whatsoever on factual observations which i am making…
Thirdly Sorry to disappoint you, but i am not a fan on Bal Thackery….In fact i am more of a kick-ass critic of shiv sena and its ilk. That is one big problem muslims have to over come in their mindset…Muslims think that their biggest opponents are from rival religion in that geographical location on earth…No that is not true…The biggest opposition to islam and muslims are from those who are from scientific community…namely atheists…Those atheists may be born as Hindus,Christians,Jews e.t.c..but that should not make you infer that they are opposing you because of their religion of birth…
Fourthly i make no claims that religion(whether hinduism,islam, christianity)has any bearing on corrupt morals of an individual…Rascals,cheats,idiots and traitors are evenly distributed among all religions…
Fifthly Yes muslims are getting killed,slaughtered and they are killing others too…But if are indicating any correlation between muslim birth rate and death rate,then let me assure you that number of muslims getting killed is less than 2% of muslims being born every year…3-4 Crore muslims babies are added every year to planet earth. As for muslims getting slaughtered it is their fellow muslims who are doing the lion’s share of damage.
Sixth…How come muslims are serving India more…One biggest commitment to nation is by paying taxes…Muslims are 18-20% of Indian population,but muslim tax payers are less than 5%…Muslim direct tax contribution is even less @ < 2%.
so yes we not to spell out clearly as who is biased here…I do not even have a reason to be biased since i am not even a Hindu and in fact i reject GOD.
It might sound exciting, but how you purpose to win with a exclusive political party of Muslims when we know that there are less than 20% Muslim in India.
Muslims are not in majority in any constituency except J&K. So even if all Muslims will vote for a single candidate, there is no guarantee that he/she will win.
Mind it, when you talk about consolidating Muslim votes, don’t you think non Muslim vote will also consolidate.
This is not the proper solution.The so called secular parties exploit the muslims through maulanas.why mamta and jaylalitha are succesful in this election.? Politics is a serious business and should be entrusted to moderates intellectuals amongst the muslim communiy.
I think Indian Muslims should unite and stand firm against such peoples and not surrender to them for some benefits in this world.
Moreover it is very important for us to be on a single plateform and not trust pseudo secular parties like cong, sp etc.
Kuffar La itebaar .
There is hades also beware of kuffar. Its correct time to be united and make our own party like they have in Hyderabad , which is unbeatable for past 55 years. AIMIM . The only voice of muslims without fear. If modi follow RSS since his youth , its true because he was AVBP leader RSS, VHP , SHIV Sena and BJP its same shit names are different. Time has come to follow AMIMIM philosophy only focus on muslim development , this is only way to bring up community muslims are more secular by giving vote to congress everytime.
Aimim majlis Hyderabad they won only 7 mla and 1 MP but able to brought every government to knees to accept the conditions of muslims of Hyderabad , which they demand for.
It was congress who accepted , it was TDP who accepted and even now TRS who accepted to give 12 percent reservation.
Making muslim national party it will not polarize muslims votes infact it will won seat from muslim dominated constituency there by atleast those muslims areas will live the life the way they want to be.
RSS, VHP , CONGRESS , BJP , SHIV Sena all are same dogs without tail hybrid one.