الهند: تعدد الأحزاب الإسلامية يضر بتوحد الكتلة التصويتية

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

تعيش الأصوات الانتخابية الإسلامية في ولاية "تاميل نادو" الهندية - حالة من التشتت بسبب تعدُّد الجبهات السياسة الإسلامية والمرشحين، بالرغم من تشكيل الأقلية المسلمة 6%؛ مما يتعبره المراقبون تفتيتًا للأصوات، وتنافسًا يخالف أمل التوحد المنشود.

وقد دعا العديدُ من الرموز الدينية المسلمين إلى تجنُّب تقسيم الأصوات، وتوحيد جبهتهم الانتخابية لتحقيق مطالبهم.

ومن بين الأحزاب المتنافسة "جماعة التوحيد" بـ"الهند"، وجماعة التوحيد بـ"تاميل نادو"، ورابطة الاتحاد الهندي الإسلامية؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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For a community that has a voter base of about 6 per cent, Muslims in Tamil Nadu find an increasing number of political outfits fighting for their votes. The emergence of varied groups has posed a serious challenge to the community’s attempts at leveraging unified vote share to further its cause, with the personality-driven organisations often joining opposing camps and splitting the votes.

The history of the Muslim political movement in Tamil Nadu could be traced back to Independence. Following the partition, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) was floated in 1948 with a strong South Indian character. For long, the party was led by the iconic Quaid-E-Millath and remained almost the sole representative of the community for decades.

With his death in 1972, churnings slowly began in the organisation.

In an earlier interview to The Hindu, Tamil writer and commentator, Kalanthai Peer Mohammed, had argued that after Quaid-E-Millath, the IUML was largely content with representing the interests of Muslim businessmen.

“The IUML was hardly involved in political mobilisation or organising mass agitations. In the pursuit of vote bank politics, the IUML was wooed by both the DMK and AIADMK, finally leading to the split in the organisation,” he told cultural historian A.R. Venkatachalapathy.

While the Indian National League (INL) was the first to emerge out of the IUML, which aligned consistently with the DMK between 1960s and 1980s, the Babri Masjid demolition led to a series of dissents.