At a rally in Mahoba, Budelkhand on Monday, PM Modi had denounced the practice of triple talaq among Muslims and condemned the attempts to politicise the issue.
Signaling a strategic shift, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) seemed to have picked up its main adversary in BJP leaving out the feud ridden incumbent Samajwadi Party and even the Congress in its scheme of things.
Concentrating on the winning combination of Dalits with Muslims that together constitute nearly 40% chunk of the voting population, BSP supremo, Mayawati attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for forcing his opinion on religious matters on the issue of triple talaq.
The PM should not “force his opinion and decision” on the believers of any particular religion by “following the RSS agenda”, said Mayawati reminding BJP and RSS Article 25 of the Constitution that gives all citizens the freedom of conscience and free profession, practice and propagation of religion.
At a rally in Mahoba, Budelkhand on Monday, PM Modi had denounced the practice of triple talaq among Muslims and condemned the attempts to politicise the issue.
Accusing the BJP led government for tinkering with issues related to Shariat, Mayawati she said such matters should be left to the Muslim community and not raked up with an eye on the upcoming Assembly elections in some states for political gains.
“BJP and its central government led by Narendra Modi have now started a new controversy over Muslim personal law, triple talaq and common civil code before the Assembly elections in some states to serve its petty politics. BSP strongly condemns this despicable act,” Mayawati said in a statement.
A day before also, Mayawati had left out SP and Congress and concentrated her attack on Modi alone. She had blamed Modi for proving to be an utter failure in meeting his lofty promises and getting reduced to a PM who was interested only in engraving his nameplate on various projects that were already in the pipeline.
Explaining the strategic shift, BSP insiders say, “As of now the SP because of its ugly internal feud has become a minor player in UP elections, the Congress still remains a spent force. The main opponent as we see is the BJP alone which is trying to hard sell the notion that it is pro-Dalit.
But given the hardcore Brahminical agenda of the RSS, it is not going to impact our core supporters, leaving out the Muslims who would want to go with the party that has chances of winning and can given them sense of security and opportunity, the add.
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