Owaisi factor creates ripple among political parties banking on Muslim votes in UP

Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM, which goes to contest subsequent 12 months’s Uttar Pradesh Meeting polls on the promise of making management amongst Muslims, has created unease within the political parties that to this point thought of the members of the minority neighborhood as their core “vote financial institution”.

Totally different castes, together with Jatavs, Yadavs, Rajbhars and Nishads, which represent a comparatively small a part of the inhabitants of Uttar Pradesh, kind of have their very own management, however Muslims, who account for greater than 19 per cent of the folks within the state, don’t see any united management.

So the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), led by Owaisi, needs to finish the “slavery” of Muslims within the palms of the Samajwadi Occasion (SP), the Bahujan Samaj Occasion (BSP) and the Congress, which had been utilizing them as their “vote financial institution”, in line with the leaders of the social gathering.

There are 82 Meeting segments within the state the place Muslim voters are able to make or mar the political fortunes of the candidates.

Buoyed by profitable 5 seats in final 12 months’s Bihar polls from the Muslim-dominated Seemanchal area, which gave jitters to the RJD and the Congress, Owaisi has already introduced that his social gathering will area candidates in 100 of the 403 seats within the Uttar Pradesh election anticipated to be held early subsequent 12 months.

The Hyderabad MP launched his ballot marketing campaign from Ayodhya earlier this month and since then, has been addressing public conferences at totally different locations.

AIMIM nationwide spokesperson Syed Asim Waqar advised PTI on Sunday that the principle aim of the social gathering is to create a political narrative and management amongst Muslims for the progress of the neighborhood and a greater future.

“Even the so-called secular events, which have been getting the votes of the Muslims, by no means allowed a Muslim management to emerge. The report of the Sachar Committee has made out the situation wherein the events have pushed them to,” he stated.

The opinions of consultants differ on whether or not Muslims, after the rise of Hindutva politics, have turn into conscious sufficient to create their very own acceptable management.

The SP and the BSP have accused Owaisi of serving the curiosity of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) by making an attempt to divide Muslim votes and dismissed any risk of the AIMIM having any impression within the nation’s political heartland.

Senior SP chief Abu Azmi discarded Owaisi as a “vote-katwa” (splitter of votes) who’s appearing on behalf of the BJP to wreck the ballot prospects of the Samajwadi Occasion.

State media coordinator of the Congress Lallan Kumar stated Owaisi remembers Muslims solely on the time of elections and claimed that the minority neighborhood has historically supported the grand outdated social gathering.

Nevertheless, political analyst Parvez Ahmed believes that this time, the “Owaisi issue” will certainly have an effect in Uttar Pradesh.

“The explanation for that is that after the rise of hardline Hindutva politics within the nation, a big part of Muslims has began to grasp the significance of their separate management. The SP, the BSP and different events that declare to be Muslim-friendly have been silent on the problems of Muslims.

“The concept is now gaining power amongst Muslims that if it they don’t have a management of their very own, the atrocities towards them will solely improve,” he stated.

At this juncture, Owaisi just isn’t the goal of the BJP however of these events which have to this point been making an attempt to get the votes of Muslims on the idea of their worry of the saffron social gathering, Ahmed stated.

He stated one other part of the Muslims additionally thinks what hurt has the BJP performed to them.

“The Muzaffarnagar riots, which left a mark of worry on the minds of Muslims, passed off not in the course of the BJP’s rule however in the course of the SP regime. In the course of the regime of (Chief Minister) Yogi Adityanath, there was no such riot wherein Muslims have been particularly focused. The share of Muslims in authorities jobs within the state is lower than two per cent, whereas the Congress and different non-BJP events dominated the state for the longest time,” Ahmed identified.

In response to Census 2011 knowledge, Muslims account for 19.26 per cent of the inhabitants in Uttar Pradesh.

They’ll play a decisive function in 82 of the state’s 403 Meeting constituencies. Muslims represent 50.57 per cent of the inhabitants in Rampur, 47.12 per cent in Moradabad, 43.04 per cent in Bijnor, 41.95 per cent in Saharanpur, 41.3 per cent in Muzaffarnagar, 40.78 per cent in Amroha and above 30 per cent in Balrampur, Azamgarh, Bareilly, Meerut, Bahraich, Gonda and Shravasti.

In response to political analyst Rasheed Kidwai, the difficulty of giving management to Muslims has come up kind of in each election in Uttar Pradesh however by no means took off and the Muslims typically voted for the SP and the BSP.

Owaisi’s social gathering will contest the Uttar Pradesh polls as a part of the “Bhagadari Morcha” shaped by Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Occasion (SBSP) president Om Prakash Rajbhar.