Tag: Shia Muslims

New Delhi : With the denial of a Rajya Sabha seat to Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, the BJP seems to be shifting focus from the Shia Muslims who were being targeted for entry into the BJP. The decision on Naqvi comes after the Uttar Pradesh elections where the Yogi Adityanath government’s Shia Muslim minister Mohsin Raza was dropped and Danish Azad Ansari, a Sunni OBC, was appointed minister in the state council. The Central Minority Commission is headed by a Sikh, while earlier a Muslim Ghairul Hasan Rizvi, another...