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Will praising Jinnah help draw the Muslim vote bank for the BJP

Created by : Himanshu Pathak, Sr/Principal Coresspondent, Coresspondent  | 08 18 2009 09:31:25 +0000
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Just when India celebrated its Independence day, there is news which is doing the rounds where few of the BJP leaders were seen praising Jinnah, this debate has been created mainly because we all know that Congress and BJP are the 2 major parties which will be elected on most of the ocassions to form government and this made me to take notice of this issue where still religion based politics is played in India as we should be moving forward where everyone is treated as Indian first and not Hindu or a Muslim there should be unity among people and not differences. 


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So this incident has created a bit of stir in the Indian politics scenario where the BJP leaders are found in the firing line from most of their counterparts.

So what do you think people, will praising jinnah help to draw the muslim vote bank for the BJP?

  
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I don't think so, this is just anti - congress thing that they are doing and they are going to such an extent that they are even praising Jinnah this clearly gives out their frustaration against Congress in this regard. And now BJP leaders are dissassociating themselves from Jaswant singh's views, And why all of a sudden Jaswant singh in his book is praising Jinnah and accusing Pandit nehru and Vallabhai patel for the partition for that matter, the reason may be due to the secular government which is there in pakistan which closely resembles the Hindutva stand of BJP..and BJP has very bad relations with the muslim voters in the country for a very long time and this incident will not do any difference and i dont think that this will help them draw the muslim vote bank which has become indeed a deciding factor in elections lately.
By Himanshu Pathak, Sr/Principal Coresspondent, Coresspondent  08 18 2009 09:52:51 +0000
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I believe praising Jinnah was a strategy by BJP to get Muslim vote bank.
BJP is a party which could not succeed for the last 6 years and because of that it is playing every possible tactics to come to power. Earlier also, it tried to get Muslim support by declaring Jinnah as secular, when that did not work, they then tried to ignite the Hindu population of India in the name of Religion and Ram Setu.Still, after loosing the elections, BJP realised, it has already lost its good image among the eyes of Indian population as a Pro-Hindu party and only those types of people will support them. So, it is now again trying to gain Muslim sympathy since it very well knows that Muslim population in India today is not minority and the rate by which Muslims are increasing in India, after 30 years, India will be a Muslim majority country. So BJP is trying to reset its good image in the eyes of Muslim population of India again.
By Bhushan Patil, Project Lead, Birlasoft Limited  | 08 19 2009 05:45:40 +0000
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I do not think praising jinnah, is about the relgion or caste politics. Jinnah is being probably praised by BJP for his role in freedom fight movement.

What happened after getting freedom, and separation of India and Pakistan is most unfortunate. But with change in the current social environment, it is imperative that BJP takes on general stand.
By suchita Ambardekar, Director on Board, Vir Rubber Products Pvt Ltd, Vir auto enterprises Pvt Ltd  | 08 19 2009 05:21:42 +0000
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I dont think praising Jinnah will do any good for the BJP. First of all they have to come out of thier fundamental character.
By Prabhat nair, Correspondent, kendrathil  | 08 20 2009 05:31:43 +0000
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No it may adversely affect the support they are enjoying from the majority community
By A R Vinayak Das, Civil Engineer, Consulting Engineering Services (I)  | 08 20 2009 04:43:38 +0000
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Well said Himanshu!! Desperation is the word... Thanks for the referral
By Makrand Bhave, Marketing & MICE, WIZCRAFT International  | 08 20 2009 04:15:50 +0000
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My earlier comment was before expulsion of Jaswant Singh Ji.

Read it and you can understand what BJP wanted perhaps and what not.

[Anyways fun to see few people draw social issues[Water,electricity,food] when it is BJP but they forget those when Congress comes into pic as if Congress only expell leaders on corporate performance ground like multinational company]
By Sayan Chakraborty, Senior ERP Consultant, International Business machines  | 08 19 2009 22:11:01 +0000
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I solely agree, that "Praising Jinnah" will not help BJP in any form. Since, BJP as an Organisation lacks in their "Vision" & "Mission".

 

They have actually forgotten that, in today's world a Rural India(Thats where India Lives) needs basic amenities like Food, Water, Electricity, Helath-Care, House etc more that any "Ram Mandir or Setu". It looks like BJP has completely detached itself from the Ground Realities and still being stuck. I would Suggest BJP, to take Drought & Infaltion as their current agenda. Instead of criticsing they should come up for Help & Support of Common Man likewise they were during the 26/11 attack.
By Kashif Billal, Training & Induction Manager, H&M Hennes & Mauritz  | 08 19 2009 09:15:09 +0000
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Flash news.. Jaswanth is expelled out of BJP.. So BJP agreed that this will not help them.
By Shaju George, Facilities/Construction Manager, IBS Software Services (P) Ltd  | 08 19 2009 08:05:16 +0000
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This news is every where now......

Senior leader Jaswant Singh has been sacked by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for writing a book praising Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

Jaswant Singh, who is the party MP from Darjeeling, was sacked today at the party's chintan baithak being held in Shimla.
By Yash Singh, Coresspondent, Star  | 08 19 2009 07:57:35 +0000
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I dont think it is to attract Muslim vote bank, Because BJP & RSS disassociated themselves from this book.

Anyways whether BJP needs Muslim votebank to come to power or not--That BJP as a party has to decide.

This election defete is a temporary problem or a parmanant--that BJP as  a party has to decide.

When sun goes down and moon comes out--Does that illustrate SUN is eaten up by demon or not--That BJP as a party has to decide.
By Sayan Chakraborty, Senior ERP Consultant, International Business machines  | 08 18 2009 19:22:53 +0000
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No. The Jinnah ploy is only going to backfire since everyone is aware that BJP leaders are opportunistic and will start praising Jinnah when Ram Janambhoomi or anti-Manmohan slogans don't yield the desired poll result.
By Shahnawaz Islam, PR & Media Relations Manager, National Institute of Smart Governance  | 08 18 2009 16:58:15 +0000
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Many/almost Muslim are not blind follower of JINNAH ,due to him many muslims were butchered in partition ,and this partition was only to fulfill the wishes of Jinnah, for making him prime minister.,when Pt .Nehru didn't agreed to leave the place Pakistan was formed,and similarly Muslim  who knows that B.J.P will never be with them,they are not going to support at any cost. 
By SB DIKSHIT, STATE QUALITY MONITOR, U.P.R.R.D.A  | 08 18 2009 12:00:34 +0000
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