LUCKNOW: Practically a decade after it was hit by communal riots in 2013, the west UP district of Muzaffarnagar is all set to maintain a BJP-backed mega-convention on “Hindu-Muslim unity”. The convention, titled ‘Sneh Milan: Ek Desh Ek DNA’ is probably going to be organised between March 15 and March 20, in accordance to a proposal moved by UP BJP Minority Morcha, which has additionally invited CM Yogi Adityanath because the chief visitor.
The morcha chief, Basit Ali, maintained that Muzaffarnagar has been chosen for the occasion as a result of it’s the land the place former PM Chaudhary Charan Singh experimented with the concept of Jat-Muslim unity which was later “hijacked” by the Congress and Samajwadi Social gathering in their bid “to attain energy”.
“The thought is to deliver collectively the leaders of Muslim and Hindu communities on one stage and challenge their unity,” Ali stated, whereas talking to TOI. Sources stated that the social gathering plans to invite regional leaders of varied communities together with Jat, Gujjar and Thakur from close by west UP districts, together with Meerut, Bijnor, Shamli and Saharanpur, to the occasion.
Ali insisted that each group wants to perceive that their ancestors have been the “similar”. “All they want to acknowledge it publicly…this could strengthen the social and political cloth of the area and elsewhere,” he stated.
Observers stated that the BJP has been making concerted makes an attempt to nibble on the very basis of the opposition by reaching out to the Muslims which account for round 20% of the citizens in UP. BJP’s overtures in direction of minorities have been attaining a lot significance in UP the place the saffron outfit faces stiff political resistance from the SP-RLD mix.
BJP sources identified that the social gathering has been in search of to tweak its technique and win over the minorities after PM Modi gave a clarion name to attain out to socio-economically backward Pasmanda Muslims.
The morcha chief, Basit Ali, maintained that Muzaffarnagar has been chosen for the occasion as a result of it’s the land the place former PM Chaudhary Charan Singh experimented with the concept of Jat-Muslim unity which was later “hijacked” by the Congress and Samajwadi Social gathering in their bid “to attain energy”.
“The thought is to deliver collectively the leaders of Muslim and Hindu communities on one stage and challenge their unity,” Ali stated, whereas talking to TOI. Sources stated that the social gathering plans to invite regional leaders of varied communities together with Jat, Gujjar and Thakur from close by west UP districts, together with Meerut, Bijnor, Shamli and Saharanpur, to the occasion.
Ali insisted that each group wants to perceive that their ancestors have been the “similar”. “All they want to acknowledge it publicly…this could strengthen the social and political cloth of the area and elsewhere,” he stated.
Observers stated that the BJP has been making concerted makes an attempt to nibble on the very basis of the opposition by reaching out to the Muslims which account for round 20% of the citizens in UP. BJP’s overtures in direction of minorities have been attaining a lot significance in UP the place the saffron outfit faces stiff political resistance from the SP-RLD mix.
BJP sources identified that the social gathering has been in search of to tweak its technique and win over the minorities after PM Modi gave a clarion name to attain out to socio-economically backward Pasmanda Muslims.