Seema Mustafa / Citizen
For it is clear from a visit to the districts of Bihar, that the BJP has failed to polarise the voter on communal lines. In village after village across Samastipur, Jehanabad, and in between villagers greeted The Citizen with, “there is no discord here, we are one, there is no problem and there will not be, this is Bihar.”
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The Muslims in Bihar have merged into the whole, and it is perhaps this that has ensured the failure of the BJPs communal campaign. There are no fatwas by the religious leaders; no pandering by the political parties; no counter except the one by Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad Yadav; just a message down the line that all religious communities are secure in Nitish Kumars Bihar.
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The Muslims, almost as if a signal has been sent across, are not raising issues that are not of Bihar’s in these elections. There is no reaction from a group of Muslims just outside Patna about the Dadri lynching, and the BJPs beef campaign. more
For it is clear from a visit to the districts of Bihar, that the BJP has failed to polarise the voter on communal lines. In village after village across Samastipur, Jehanabad, and in between villagers greeted The Citizen with, “there is no discord here, we are one, there is no problem and there will not be, this is Bihar.”
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The Muslims in Bihar have merged into the whole, and it is perhaps this that has ensured the failure of the BJPs communal campaign. There are no fatwas by the religious leaders; no pandering by the political parties; no counter except the one by Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad Yadav; just a message down the line that all religious communities are secure in Nitish Kumars Bihar.
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The Muslims, almost as if a signal has been sent across, are not raising issues that are not of Bihar’s in these elections. There is no reaction from a group of Muslims just outside Patna about the Dadri lynching, and the BJPs beef campaign. more
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