That also brings to fore the clash of interests between the numerically small but dominant elite Muslims and the large group of poor and marginalised Muslims. The latter are looking for an opening. That is exactly like the late 1980s when the Dalits and OBCs were feeling suffocated in the Congress and looking for an alternative. This was provided by the Mandal Commission, leading to the assimilation of Dalits by Mayawati and Kansi Ram on the one, and, OBCs by Mulayam Singh Yadav, on the other. By focusing on development as its core agenda, the BJP has fired the imagination of various subaltern Muslim groups. Two, Muslims have also become fed up with the overdose of identity politics that attempts to freeze them as ‘minority’ and dissuades them from integrating with the social mainstream. That not only leads to their poaching by anti-BJP parties by posing as defenders of secularism, but also instils fear psychosis among them vis-à-vis BJP. Anil Kumar Verma Swarajya
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 08:05:11 +0000
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