[Reader-list] Gujarat Muslims register highest literacy rate

[Bipin Trivedi]

Dear Rakesh,
Muslims were voting on mass basis since independence and not at all started voting on mass basis after 2002 as you are mentioning. If what you say is true then after 2002 Modi would have not elected with thumping majority in 2002 election where voting % was just about 45 %. So, in all over India Muslims are always voting on mass basis compared to Hindu vote that is why vote bank politics of congress worked for a long time.
Thanks
Bipin



-----Original Message-----
From: reader-list-bounces at sarai.net [mailto:reader-list-bounces at sarai.net] On Behalf Of Rakesh Iyer
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 6:49 PM
To: Pawan Durani
Cc: reader-list
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Gujarat Muslims register highest literacy rate

Dear Pawan

While I knew this before also, it is certainly good to remember this fact
keeping in mind the worse situation of Muslims in states like West Bengals
run by the Left. At the same time, stereotyping of Muslims is also done by
parties like the BJP and their cohorts (the VHP, the Bajrang Dal and the
RSS) and also by the so-called secularists (Congress, RJD, SP, BSP, Left
etc.) both with the intention of securing Hindu and Muslim en-bloc votes
respectively.

It would be certainly better if such parties concentrated on winning
elections by showing their development work rather than dividing society
along communal lines. And if they do so, they should be given a shocking
defeat for having tried to do so. That has been a failure in 1984 and 2002.

Narendra Modi may or may not be credited for anything, but he can be
credited for one big thing: Muslims before 2002 may have not realized the
importance of vote, but due to the pogrom, they have definitely realized the
importance of voting.

Rakesh
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