الهند: ترشيح 3 مسلمين من 176 مرشحا بقوائم حزب بهارتيه جنتا

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

تسود الأوساط الإسلامية في "الهند" حالة من الاستياء في أعقاب وضع حزب "بهراتيه جنتا" 3 مسلمين على قوائمه الانتخابية من أصل 176 مرشحًا، وهو ما يعتبر أقل من عام 2008 حين تم ترشيح 4 مسلمين.

ويأتي ذلك في ظل العلاقات المتوترة مع الحزب والمسؤول قياداته عن التحريض على العنف ضد المسلمين، وانخفاض شعبيته وتأييده بينهم.

وجدير بالذكر أن الناخبين المسلمين يشكلون 15% من مجموع ناخبي ولاية "راجثستان" الهندية؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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The BJP's list of 176 candidates for the upcoming assembly polls has only three Muslims. This measly representation — merely one-and-half per cent of the 200 seats — turns on its head the saffron party's strong urgings to the 60-lakh strong community to shun their reservations about the BJP, showing up the party's own dichotomy.

"BJP's response is disheartening. Our efforts to change the mood have fallen flat," says former cabinet minister Nasru Khan, denied a ticket from Kamah seat in Bharatpur district this time.

Modi's recent rally in Jaipur saw a sizeable presence of Muslims but the community failed to find more representation in the candidates list, leaving BJP's Muslim leaders distraught as this time's tally of three is even less than the 2008 assembly polls when four had made it. Of Rajasthan's 4 crore voters, Muslims comprise 15%.

BJP's Muslim leaders consider this a missed opportunity. Though a traditional Congress vote-bank, the community's been looking for options following atrocities in five years, raising apprehensions over Congress's rule. The Gopalgarh police firing killed 10 Muslims; there were more than 25 communal riots; a Muslim officer was burnt by a mob in Sawai Madhopur.