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Nov 16, 2022

'New Deceit': Mayawati on BJP, RSS Outreach to Pasmanda Muslims

The BSP chief was responding to a 'Labharthi Sammelan' organised by the BJP for Pasmanda Muslims in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur, which will vote in a by-election on December 5.
BSP chief Mayawati. Photo: Twitter/@Mayawati

Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Wednesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of deceiving Pasmanda Muslims after they organised a sammelan for members of the community.

Mayawati said the BJP and the RSS’ concern for Pasmanda Muslims is now a “new deceit” as their outlook towards the community is well known.

In a tweet in Hindi, she said, “The concern of the BJP and RSS towards the Pasmanda Muslim community is new deceit. Their thinking, intention and outlook towards the community are not hidden from anyone.”

The BJP organised a Labharthi Sammelan, attended by Pasmanda Muslims, last week ahead of the by-elections to the Assembly constituency in Rampur.

“The result of the BJP’s negative outlook towards the Muslim community is that even under their government, they are still as poor, backward and distressed as they were during the Congress rule,” Mayawati said in another tweet.

Senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Deputy chief minister Brijesh Pathak and minister of state Baldev Singh Aulakh, along with minister for minority welfare Danish Azad Ansari addressed the gathering at the Gandhi Stadium in Rampur.

The BJP has plans to hold more such meetings in Muslim-majority areas of the state in the coming days.

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