Reaching out to deprived, non-elite among Muslims and other minorities on the issues of development and welfare programmes of the Modi government was one of the things flagged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the National Executive meet of the BJP in Hyderabad.
According to senior sources present at the meeting, Mr. Modi made this intervention when BJP Uttar Pradesh unit chief Swatantra Dev Singh was speaking about the party’s victory in the recently concluded bypolls in Rampur and especially Azamgarh, both seats strongholds of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and with significant Muslim populations. Backward Muslim communities form the majority of that community and refer to themselves as Pasmandas, the non-Syed section of the Muslim community.
