Over the past few weeks, influential Muslim organisation from Telangana have been deliberating the nuances of which party — the Congress or Bharat Rashtra Samithi — to support ahead of the Assembly elections.
Sources requesting anonymity said that the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind’s Telangana and Odisha chapter, a few weeks ago, formed a committee to understand the political situation and sentiment across Telangana. The organisation has had internal meetings to discuss the promises that the ruling BRS made ahead of previous elections, and to what extent they were kept, policy formulation and implementation since the formation of Telangana.
“The empowerment of Muslims was discussed. Also, the law and order in the State, that there have been no major communal riots, were also spoken about,” a source familiar with the developments told The Hindu. Senior leaders belonging to major political parties are said to have met the Jamaat.
