Pasmanda

Parliament took a clear legislative choice in drafting Sections 3(1)(r) and (s) to connect those specific offences to a public element, and courts are not free to read out that element simply because a commentator finds it inconvenient.

The demand for Muslim reservations will not be met because it is forbidden to make reservations for religious reasons.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has started its campaign in full swing for 2024 with the Prime Minister giving a clarion call to party workers for door-to-door outreach.

PM Modi cornered the opposition parties claiming that they are provoking and misleading Muslims on the issue of UCC and Triple Talaq.

In 2022, at BJP National Meeting, PM Modi asked party to focus on outreach program for Pasmanda Muslims.

With Pasmanda Muslims forming 70-80% of the Muslims, the BJP furthering this trope becomes particularly dangerous. They are essentially insinuating then, that most Muslims today converted to Islam because of the discrimination they faced when they were Hindus and that they are still in bad economic and social conditions because of their identity when they were Hindus.

Munawar Rana said that Muslim invaders took Indian women as wives, hence Muslims can't confirm if their mothers are Muslim or not

It appears that the benefits being extended to the Pasmanda community appear to be an extension of PM Modi's 'sabka saath, sabka vikas' policy he has been talking about. Even the BJP knows that this policy has neither received any political gains nor does it expect to gain anything.

BJP’s choice of going for the “deprived” is wise - especially the Pasmanda Muslims - be that as it may, the result is what matters.