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.
RE:Disturbing
by purnav on Dec 24, 2007 06:25 AM Permalink
No Muslim minister no Mulsim MLA in assembly ... Good riddance hahaha where will they now go and talk about their problems?pakistan MPs? hahah .. they are busy getting killed by their own terroritss..Now they will understand what will happend if they go against Hindus
RE:Disturbing
by delguy on Dec 24, 2007 06:46 AM Permalink
Modi must be giving tickets to deserving people, I am sure he just dont want to give tickets for appeasement. Congress and others just do it for vote bank, also they always wants to just distribute the tickets for the sake of saying the s/he is muslim (or non-hindu) but they dont care what s/he is capable of, just like reservation. Modi is quite fair in his approach and everybody knows what he is talking about, no hidden agenda,,
RE:Disturbing
by umashankar s on Dec 24, 2007 07:03 AM Permalink
I agree with Fun Lover's views. Modi should involve all the communities in the mainstream. Or else, God forbid, in the long run, it may encourage rampant extremism from the deprived. He cannot and must not be one-sided.
RE:Disturbing
by ranjith nambiar on Dec 24, 2007 09:41 AM Permalink
Hey fun lover... Why should he give any tickets to anybody who is opposing his party from coming to power...?
RE:Disturbing
by Fun Lover on Dec 24, 2007 06:38 AM Permalink
In Indian state politics it often turns out to be the case that the sitting MLA banks on the strength of the party or the state leaders to win the seat. Many a time, it is not the clout of the MLA that gets him elected, but the charisma of someone else. In this case that someone else is Modi. Many of these MLAs otherwise have very little clout with the public. In fact, Modi introduced around 49 new faces into the elections. It is a bit heartless to not introduce even a single candidate from the Muslim community.
Now, coming to credibility, I REFUSE to believe that there is not even a single Muslim in Gujarat who has the credibility to stand in an election.
Also, I am not suggesting that Muslims will vote for Muslims or that Hindu MLAs don't listen to the grievances of Muslims. What I am telling is that democracy needs to be an accommodative process, where one needs to include all the sections of people.
RE:Disturbing
by CHETAN Engineer on Dec 24, 2007 08:21 AM Permalink
Well, no party accept a non-party candidate in polls! So, dear netizen, first let muslims enroll in BJP then they work like a fellow party worker and then aim for a ticket! How can one get a short cut to ticket???
RE:Disturbing
by ranjith nambiar on Dec 24, 2007 09:39 AM Permalink
Dear Brother CHETAN You are 'RIGHT'. No muslim likes BJP but when it wins they needs representation.This is the opportunistic stand that they have in their blood.
