It is deeply disturbing to hear that Modi has not given even a single ticket to a Muslim in Gujarat assembly elections. It amounts to totally excluding a particular community from the democratic process. The long term consequences of such exclusion are not going to be good. It is true that Muslims these days are becoming prone to extremism, but excluding them from the mainstream is not a solution to the problem. Closing the doors of development to Muslims would only drive them to a state of utter hopelessness and ultimately, the unemployed Muslim youth would think that they will have nothing to lose by becoming terrorists. I only hope that Modi would display more intelligence in the next five years and start taking steps to bring the highly alienated Muslims of Gujarat back into the mainstream.
