LUCKNOW: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is learnt to have taken feedback from the UP BJP unit about the contribution of ‘Pasmanda’ community (backward classes among Muslims) in the saffron party’s electoral performance since the 2014 Lok Sabha elections when BJP formed the government at the Centre under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi.
Pasmanda, which means, “left behind” in Farsi, account for around 75% of the total Muslim population in UP. During the recently concluded national executive in Telangana, PM Modi had asked the UP BJP cadre to ramp up the outreach among the Pasmanda community for their social uplift. Modi’s observation had come in the aftermath of BJP’s recent Lok Sabha bypoll win in SP bastions Azamgarh and Rampur.
