Tag: Brajesh Pathak

Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak has termed the BJP a “true well-wisher” of Muslims, targeting secularists who he said used the minority community as a vote bank and did not give it its rights. Pathak was addressing a meeting of the backward or Pasmanda Muslims organised by the BJP Minority Morcha here on Sunday, an outreach by the ruling party in Uttar Pradesh to woo a community normally seen to align with groups like the Samajwadi Party. Some estimates say over 85 per cent of Muslims in...