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NEW DELHI: Bengal and Assam canvass results person thrown up a situation for the Muslim community, which has been pushed into a governmental whirlpool post-2014 by BJP’s ‘communal card’ to polarise the bulk community, coupled with arguable measures similar delimitation and SIR.BJP’s occurrence successful damping the largest number assemblage successful Assam has followed the 2023 state-specific delimitation. By 1 estimate, the seats wherever Muslims held sway fell from 35/126 seats to 20. A akin measurement successful Jammu & Kashmir created 7 caller seats, which, according to the opposition, were ‘tailored’ to assistance BJP.
While the absorption has dubbed it “legalised rigging”, main curate Himanta Biswa Sarma has openly asserted that helium has done the delimitation to marginalise power of the anti-BJP spiritual group.
Assam and J&K delimitations were flagged by each absorption MP during the caller statement successful Parliament.In the tempest kicked up by Election Commission’s SIR exercise, the large complaint has revolved astir ‘disenfranchisement’ of Muslims. The borderline of the duplicate measures — SIR and delimitation — has been compounded by BJP’s belligerent run focussed connected polarising Hindus.Also read| 3 cheers successful Assam, and more: BJP gets bulk connected its ain for the archetypal timeWith sweeping verdicts successful favour of BJP successful Bengal and Assam wherever the number colonisation is supra the nationalist mean and wherever communal outreach became the mobilisational theme, the governing enactment would beryllium encouraged to measurement up connected its winning formula.
This could further trial the assemblage astatine the receiving extremity of BJP, arsenic it volition agitate secular parties who cater to voters crossed the spiritual divide. Often, specified situations tin pb to secular parties being outflanked from the right, throwing up outfits exclusively representing minorities, illustrated by AIMIM’s maturation successful Bihar’s ‘Seemanchal’ region. AIMIM has sought to play this paper successful galore states, and it remains to beryllium seen what the Hyderabad enactment does successful UP successful 2027.At the aforesaid time, the tricky concern tin nudge BJP rivals to determination towards diluting their overt secular positioning. A lawsuit successful constituent is Assam, wherever 18 of 19 Congress winners whitethorn beryllium Muslims. Such outcomes tin rattle the best.
Besides delimitation and SIR, the governmental chatter has been agog with what immoderate whitethorn telephone a “conspiracy theory” — BJP’s attempts to fortify its manus by dividing Muslim votes, similar Humayun Kabir launching a caller enactment with an emotive spiritual card.Such conundrum, and surprises, would solely beryllium for the minorities and governmental rivals to grapple with, portion BJP steps connected the state to consolidate the bulk bloc.
