LUCKNOW: Amid a spiralling Hindutva pitch, BJP is set to reach out to the minority community by organising ‘Qaumi Chaupal’ in nearly 4,100 Muslim-dominated villages across the state. Qaumi is an Urdu term meaning something related to people or community.
The campaign scheduled to be carried out by the minority wing of the UP BJP from next week essentially aims to cover as many as 23 Lok Sabha seats where Muslims electorate has a sizable presence.It will wind up by March, just before the poll campaign begins.
The seats which the saffron outfit seeks to touch as part of the campaign include Saharanpur, Kairana, Bijnor, Baghpat, Meerut, Amroha, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahr, Rampur, Sambhal, Moradabad, Bareilly, Nagina, Aligarh, Agra, Sant Kabir Nagar, Azamgarh, Lalganj, Pilibhit, Shravasti, Ghazipur, Bahraich and Muzaffarnagar.
Of the 23, as many as 11 Lok sabha seats were won by the SP-BSP combine in 2019 LS polls. Of these, the BJP, however, later managed to wrest Azamgarh and Rampur from SP.
UP BJP minority morcha president Basit Ali said that the idea of the campaign was to “initiate a dialogue” with the Muslims and assuage their apprehensions, if any, about the saffron party. “We need to initiate communication with the minorities who, otherwise, have been one of the key beneficiaries of the various welfare schemes initiated by central and state govts,” Ali told TOI.
Sources said that the functionaries of the minority morcha will camp in the Muslim-dominated villages, meet the respective gram pradhans and other influential sections of the community and discuss the issues which need to be resolved. Sources said that the BJP seeks to feel the raw pulse of the minority community after the recent inauguration of the Ram temple and amid the ongoing legal tussle over the Gyanvapi complex and Krishna Janmabhoomi in Mathura.
The campaign is seen as BJP’s yet another attempt to blunt aggression of the opposition, primarily the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party, in Uttar Pradesh.
The development comes close on the heels of the ‘Modi Bhaijaan’ campaign which was formulated by the BJP in UP to bridge the gap between the party and Muslims. The party had earlier planned a ‘Sneh Yatra’ to reach out to Pasmanda (backward) Muslims, who have a sizable population. The campaign, however, could not take off despite PM Narendra Modi insistence to focus on socio-economic status of Pasmanda Muslims.
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The campaign scheduled to be carried out by the minority wing of the UP BJP from next week essentially aims to cover as many as 23 Lok Sabha seats where Muslims electorate has a sizable presence.It will wind up by March, just before the poll campaign begins.
The seats which the saffron outfit seeks to touch as part of the campaign include Saharanpur, Kairana, Bijnor, Baghpat, Meerut, Amroha, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahr, Rampur, Sambhal, Moradabad, Bareilly, Nagina, Aligarh, Agra, Sant Kabir Nagar, Azamgarh, Lalganj, Pilibhit, Shravasti, Ghazipur, Bahraich and Muzaffarnagar.
Of the 23, as many as 11 Lok sabha seats were won by the SP-BSP combine in 2019 LS polls. Of these, the BJP, however, later managed to wrest Azamgarh and Rampur from SP.
UP BJP minority morcha president Basit Ali said that the idea of the campaign was to “initiate a dialogue” with the Muslims and assuage their apprehensions, if any, about the saffron party. “We need to initiate communication with the minorities who, otherwise, have been one of the key beneficiaries of the various welfare schemes initiated by central and state govts,” Ali told TOI.
Sources said that the functionaries of the minority morcha will camp in the Muslim-dominated villages, meet the respective gram pradhans and other influential sections of the community and discuss the issues which need to be resolved. Sources said that the BJP seeks to feel the raw pulse of the minority community after the recent inauguration of the Ram temple and amid the ongoing legal tussle over the Gyanvapi complex and Krishna Janmabhoomi in Mathura.
The campaign is seen as BJP’s yet another attempt to blunt aggression of the opposition, primarily the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party, in Uttar Pradesh.
The development comes close on the heels of the ‘Modi Bhaijaan’ campaign which was formulated by the BJP in UP to bridge the gap between the party and Muslims. The party had earlier planned a ‘Sneh Yatra’ to reach out to Pasmanda (backward) Muslims, who have a sizable population. The campaign, however, could not take off despite PM Narendra Modi insistence to focus on socio-economic status of Pasmanda Muslims.
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