الهند: فشل المسلمين في الانتخابات بسبب انقسامهم

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حملت نتائج الانتخابات الهندية خيبة أمل كبيرة للمسلمين الذين يشكلون نحو 160 مليون نسمة، وذلك نتيجة انقسامهم والتنازع بينهم وذهاب بعضهم لتأييد الأحزاب الهندوسية والعلمانية؛ حيث أكد المحللون أن ذلك بمثابة فشل ذريع للمسلمين.

وقد أكد المراقبون أن أصواتهم قد انقسمت بين "حزب المؤتمر" و"حزب سمجاواتي"، وبعضهم أيد الحزب الهندوسي المتطرف "بهارتيه جنتا"، الذي حصد 71 مقعدًا من 80 مقعدًا بولاية "أوتر براديش" التي يشكل المسلمون بها تأثيرًا، وأن ذلك جاء نتيجة الإعراض عن توحيد الأصوات والتوافق حول المرشحين، وعدم العمل بنصيحة العلماء ورموز المجتمع الإسلامي في توحيد الأصوات واتباع إستراتيجيات تحقق للمسلمين مزيدًا من النتائج الإيجابية. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Divided Muslims Fail in India Election

The official results of India general elections have brought a big disappointment to the country's large Muslim minority, securing the lowest-ever representations in the lower house of Parliament known as Lok Sabha.

“Muslims have failed to make any impact in the elections,” Girija Shankar, a political analyst based in central India, told OnIslam.net.

“At many places, their votes were divided among parties including Congress, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP),” he added.

Results last Friday for India's five-week long general election indicated a landslide victory for the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Narendra Modi.

The rise of BJP has brought the representation of Muslims in the parliament to the lowest so far with only 22 Muslims elected.

For the first time, not a single Muslim has been elected from the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which has a Muslim population of 18.5 percent.

The BJP fielded only one Muslim candidate Syed Shahnawaz Hussain from Bhagalpur constituency of Bihar state. But he was defeated by his nearest rival Shailesh Kumar Mandal of Janata Dal (United) by more than 9,000 votes.

The state of West Bengal has elected highest number of eight Muslim MPs followed by four from Bihar, three from Jammu and Kashmir, two each from Assam, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and one from Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana after state’s bifurcation).

It is believed that Muslim votes can influence poll outcome in more than 120 parliamentary constituencies (out of total 543) nationwide, but this time Muslims failed to make much difference in polls.

“Our message to Muslims was: do not allow your votes to get divided among different parties. But I believe they failed to keep their votes intact and voted for various parties,” Shams Zaman, a Muslim journalist from Uttar Pradesh told OnIslam.net.

“This is evident from the fact that states like Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra failed to elect a single Muslim MP,” he added.