Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi seems to have dropped his hardcore Hindu card - one that fetched him two successive victories - and is leaning more towards the minority community these days.
With assembly elections knocking on the door and the suppressed dream to occupy the prime ministerial seat in 2014, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi seems to have dropped his hardcore Hindu card - one that fetched him two successive victories - and is leaning more towards the minority community these days.
The minority cell of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will organise a function for leaders of the minority community at Staff Training College (STC) in Gandhinagar on May 30. BJP’s national vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi will also be present on the occasion with Modi.
More than 400 members of the minority cell will be present on the occasion to chalk out a strategy for the upcoming polls. Sufi Saiyad Mahebub Ali, chairman of the Haj committee; AI Saiyad, chairman of Gujarat Waqf Board and former police officer will also participate in the meet. Apart from them, 150 Muslim leaders, who have been elected to various municipalities in the state, will also mark their presence at the event. The BJP minority cell has also slated aggressive activities to pocket Muslim votes.
Confirming the development, Mahebub Ali said, "We have organised this function to devise a plan keeping in mind the upcoming polls. Chief minister Narendra Modi, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, state BJP president RC Faldu and other leaders will be present at the function to guide our future actions on party’s behalf.”
Looking at the recent events, it is evident that the saffron party would give prominence to the minority voters to ensure party’s victory in the assembly polls and cleanse Modi’s tainted image as the one allegedly responsible for the 2002 communal pogrom.
For the first time, BJP banners dotted the roads of the Urs festival of the Bhadiyad Pir Dargah in Ahmedabad district, attended by thousands of Muslims from across the state. Banners depicting images of Modi, former MLA Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, Mahebub Ali were put on the way to the Dargah.
“We have put up the banners as they support our organisation,” said Mahebub Ali. He said, “Last year, the CM gave compensation to those 18 pilgrims who died in the road accident and extended sympathy to them.”
On other hand, a Muslim lawyers’ body has been formed and it recently felicitated Mahebub Ali, president of the BJP minority cell.
More than 150 lawyers held a programme at Royal Highness Hotel in Lal Darwaja. Ali said, “They felicitated me as the chairman of the Haj committee and am happy that they are supporting the party.”
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