President of the All India Muslim Jamaat, Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi Barelvi on Thursday questioned the Samajwadi Party (SP) for not nominating any Muslim among the many three candidates named by the social gathering for the Rajya Sabha election, including that the neighborhood deserved two seats in view of its constant help to the principal Opposition social gathering in Uttar Pradesh.
In his letter, Mr. Barelvi mentioned he was pained by the SP’s “anti-Muslim attitude”. “I want to bring in your notice a few ground realities. You made a pichada, Dalit and alpsankhyak (Backward Classes, Dalits and Minorities or PDA) grouping, running your campaign on the basis of it. You are fully aware that 98% Muslims voted for the SP in the 2022 Assembly elections, helping its MLAs to win many seats in an election where many communities, including your own, drifted towards the BJP. Despite it, you chose not to nominate even a single Muslim out of three seats in the Rajya Sabha, while the community deserved two seats. I am pained with this anti-Muslim attitude of yours,” wrote Mr. Razvi, who leads the Bareilly-based AIMJ, a spiritual organisation of the Barelvi motion in Sunni Islam, which enjoys sizeable help locally.
Mr. Rizvi claimed the Indian National Developmental, Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc had been weakened by the SP, which was not able to accommodate a nationwide social gathering such because the Congress. “Due to your attitude and offer of fewer seats in the upcoming parliamentary polls, the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) led by Jayant Chaudhary was forced to join the BJP. We are hearing of you doing same with the Congress. The Congress is a national party with governments in many States. Despite that, you are trying to give lesser and weaker seats to the grand old party. It is not right. The Muslim community will not remain silent if such attempts are made to tacitly help the BJP,” the letter mentioned.
The SP on February 13 declared the candidature of former MP Ram Ji Lal Suman, retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Alok Ranjan, and renominated Bollywood actor Jaya Bachchan to the Rajya Sabha for the three Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh. All three candidates filed their nomination papers on the State Assembly advanced within the presence of the SP president Akhilesh Yadav, common secretary Shivpal Singh Yadav, and different social gathering leaders.
Source: www.thehindu.com
