According to Quami Ekta Dal leader and jailed mafia don Mukhtar Ansari’s elder brother Afzal Ansari who stated that the Muslims would remain safe under the BJP prime ministerial candidate in the country. Afzal Ansari extended his support to Modi.
“The country needs Modi. The Muslims would also be safe when he becomes the Prime Minister. This is the reason that the Muslims of Varanasi are toying with the idea to vote for him,” the former Samajwadi Party MP told newspersons at the Babatpur airport on Saturday night.
“Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had asked Modi to follow ‘ Raaj Dharma’ which the Gujarat CM followed after the 2002 riots in his state. But SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav couldn’t teach ‘ Raaj Dharma’ to his son and Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav. This is why we suffered the country’s worst riots in Muzaffarnagar,” Afzal claimed.
Mulayam is dangerous for the Muslims for the reason that his sole target is to misuse the community, as said by the Quami Ekta Dal leader. “But the Muslims of eastern UP in general and Varanasi, in particular, will teach the SP a lesson this election,” he added.
Out of 27 Lok Sabha seats on both sides of the Ghaghra river in eastern UP, the BJP would win 24 seats claimed Afzal.“ The QED will win two seats and the Congress will get one. The remaining is going to the BJP,” Afzal predicted.
Interestingly, Afzal had suggested the idea of a common candidate against Modi on the Varanasi seat. He wanted the Congress, the SP and the AAP to support Mukhtar as a consensus candidate against Modi. However, his idea was rejected.