The Pasmanda Muslim community has welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement that “efforts should be made to reach out to socially backward minorities like him”, their leader also taking a step towards the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2024 Lok Sabha. ready to lift. Election.
The BJP’s focus on the Pasmanda Muslims shows that the party is looking to break into voters, who were traditionally considered the vote bank of opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh.
The leaders claim that 80-85% of the minority population is Pasmanda Muslim. In the Yogi 2.0 government, Danish Azad Ansari, who belongs to the community, has been made a minister of state, giving a message.
Apart from this, the Yogi 2.0 government has also appointed Javed Ansari as the chairman of the UP Madrasa Education Board, while Chaudhary Kafil-ul-Wara, who comes from the weaver community, has been appointed as the president of the UP Urdu Academy.
Anees Mansoori, head of the Pasmanda Muslim Society, alleged that the opposition parties have failed to look at the marginalized sections of the Muslims.
Mansoori, who has been a former state minister, told News18: “This community will go towards the one who talks about the development of the Pasmanda Muslims. For the last 15 years I have been working to organize the Pasmanda Muslim community, for their betterment. I welcome the concern shown by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi At its Working Committee meeting in Hyderabad. PM Modi should also do something for the society. We are ready to take a leap towards PM Modi, if he takes a step towards our community. ,
“Our three main demands are reservation for Dalit Muslims, Article 3 as per Article 341 of the Indian Constitution. Dalit Muslims used to get reservation from 1936 to 1950, but in 1950 the Congress government withdrew it. The way reservation for Sikhs and Buddhists have been restored, ours should also be restored. The second is to implement the Karfoori Thakur formula like in Bihar, so that there is no fear of any kind of conversion. Our third demand is employment opportunities for Pasmanda Muslims and help under the MSME section,” Mansoori said.
Accusing the opposition parties of ignoring the community, he said, “We have no special place in the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party. These parties never thought of giving respect to Pasmanda Muslims, now if our PM is thinking of giving respect to the community, then I welcome it.”
The BJP had recently won the by-elections held in Rampur and Azamgarh parliamentary constituencies. Both these constituencies were considered SP strongholds and have a large Muslim voter base.
In a recent meeting of the BJP’s National Working Committee in Hyderabad, Modi had outlined the motto of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ and said that BJP workers should reach out to the marginalized and weaker sections of the minorities.
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