Akhilesh Yadav didn't field any Muslim candidate for RS polls but wants votes from Muslims: Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi slams Samajwadi Party
Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi Barelvi has slammed Yadav and the party for not nominating any Muslim among the three candidates named by the party for the Rajya Sabha election and begging for votes from the Muslim community.
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Lucknow, Feb 16: Schooling the Samajwadi Party and its chief Akhilesh Yadav over votebank politics, President of the All India Muslim Jamaat, Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi Barelvi has slammed Yadav and the party for not nominating any Muslim among the three candidates named by the party for the Rajya Sabha election and begging votes from the Muslim community.
In a letter, Razvi slammed 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". ”
'Akhilesh didn't field any Muslim candidate for RS polls but he wants votes from the community,' says Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi pic.twitter.com/wP6Zyc1XKw
— IANS (@ians_india) February 16, 2024
Notably, Razvi, who leads the Bareilly-based AIMJ is a religious organisation of the Barelvi movement in Sunni Islam, which enjoys sizeable support in the community.
Further, he claimed the INDIA bloc had been weakened by the SP, which was not ready to accommodate a national party such as 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," he said. ”
— Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi Bareilvi (@Shahabuddinbrly) February 15, 2024
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