GUWAHATI: The Bharatiya Janata Party has adopted the Muslim appeasement template from Congress to win the Lok Sabha elections in Assam, the BJP’s former State unit president and four-time MP Rajen Gohain said.
Warming up to Muslims after claiming the party does not need ‘Miya’ (a pejorative term for migrant Bengali-origin Muslims) votes could be counterproductive for the BJP, he warned after casting his vote in Nagaon town on April 26.
A former Union Minister, Mr. Gohain represented the Nagaon (Nowgong earlier) parliamentary seat four times from 1999 to 2014. Post-delimitation in 2023, the constituency is estimated to have 58% Muslim voters, up from about 54% earlier.
