Lucknow: After being seen as a ‘determinant’ of their tendency to ‘strategic voting’, Muslims are a formidable voter at Uttar Pradesh to the 2014 General Election, when the BJP strategy to consolidate Hindu sounds across the minority select margins.
Eight years and three major elections later, Muslim ‘voice bank’ was silent in 2022 – although the community which formed more than 19% of the population up could still influence the results of more than 120 of the 403 assembly constituencies through its numerical strength.
What his strength became a weakness after 2014 when not a single Muslim parliament from Uttar Pradesh managed to reach Lok Sabha.
More than 120 seats have 20% or more of the public, but the number of MLA Muslims is reduced to 25-of 68 in 2012, the highest in the upper assembly.
Important numbers, but not always.
Muslims form more than 50% of mixed population; 47% in Moradabad and Sambhal; 43% in Bijnor; 41% in Saharanpur; More than 40% in Muzaffarnagar, Shamli and Amroha; between 30% and 40% in five other districts; and 20% to 30% in 12 districts.
However, the community has obtained a picture of a mute-audience lately.
This time hoping everything will change.
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The district has eight assembly constituity, which is at least 25% Dalit and 35% of Muslims.
The party believes that Twothe’s silence is not limited to the community.
Political parties have been silent on ‘Muslim problems’ – seen as a strategy to stop Hindu sound polarization.
Non-BJP has been calm on various topics related to the community: such as openly supporting protests on the citizenship amendment law (CAA) in Uttar Pradesh which left more than 20 dead people, or marked Muslim candidates.
The Jamajwadi Party has not exhibited how many Muslim candidates offered, while the Bahujan Party Sajaj (BSP) Mayawati has shifted its focus from Dalit-Muslim to the alignment of Dalit-Brahmin.
None of the main opposition players made community special promises in their manifesto.
Many Muslims see this silence as the right step to prevent further voice polarization.
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The district has eight assembly constituity, which is at least 25% Dalit and 35% of Muslims.
“This seems to why the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) cannot hold fast to communal problems such as Kabristan versus Shamshan carried out in the past.
These agitations, “said Imran Asad, a businessman from Bhadohi.
Historian and Varanasi based in Sri Dr.
Mahila Mahavidyalaya Mohammed Arif said the public now gathered to regain its election significance.
“Taking the process and raising demand during the election did not benefit.
The community was calm, but talking and discussing.
We have tried to convince people that social bonds are very important and so are unity,” he said, referring to political parties that marked false Muslim candidates to divide community voice.
There was something more, and the head of the Jamiats of Ulama-E-Hind Maulana Ashhad Rashidi explained: “In democracy like India, this is not about maintaining a community together but ensuring that secular elections are still divided.” But this is this ‘unity’ who chooses the community as a separate block – with a single problem.
“This creates images treated by Muslims differently, even though their problems are the same as the rest of the population,” said Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangi Mahli, Imam from Lucknow’s biggest eidgah in Aishbagh.
“This time, Muslims are not restricted as separate pieces, but as a homogeneous part of the voters.
It was very good for a secular democracy,” said Maulana.
Top Shia Cleric Maulana Saif Abbas said the public has formed a democracy forum Uttar Prades consisting of a number of national organizations to persuade Muslim voters to go and vote.
“In 2017, we found that the percentage of voting community of less than 50%,” he said.
Maulana said the forum glad that people respond to their appeal within the constituencies that went to polls in the first phase.
Population in six nine districts pick in the second round on Feb.
14 is 30% of the community.