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Addressing a rally in Rajasthan’s Banswara, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (shown holding a bow and arrow at the rally) said that if the Congress party came to power, it would ‘redistribute the wealth’ of the people to Muslims. Photo Credit: Mint<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

W<\/strong><\/mark>ith this year\u2019s elections in progress, every minority vote that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) puts in its column adds to the chance for Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition\u00a0to move past 400 seats<\/a>\u00a0in the Lok Sabha elections.\u00a0Therefore Modi, despite being a confessed member of the Hindu nationalist organization\u00a0Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh<\/a>\u00a0(RSS), has made an unlikely pitch to win the hearts of India\u2019s nearly 200 million Muslims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helping his chances is the fact that India\u2019s minority communities no longer vote in lockstep. Hindu-majority parties resolved that former tendency to their advantage years ago through the genesis of the\u00a0\u201cHindutva 2.0\u201d<\/a>\u00a0voting bloc. Hindutva, a form of cultural nationalism, centers on a unified approach to Indian identity, but it now has been supplemented with a second prong: a heavy emphasis on India\u2019s economic progress.<\/p>\n\n\n

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As featured in the Asia Times<\/a><\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

But according to the consensus view of observers, BJP strategists have concluded that the alliance coalition needs to do more than simply duplicate its performance in the 2019 elections. It must outperform in southern states such as Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh, where the BJP has had very limited success in the past<\/a>. That means generating a limited but concerted appeal to India\u2019s large Muslim population. To do this, BJP is threading the needle between cultural and economic issues in an attempt to move the electorate in its favor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take Kerala as an example. A report in The Economic Times recalls the experience of the BJP\u2019s sole Muslim candidate in the country,\u00a0M Abdul Salam<\/a>, who had difficulty connecting with Muslim voters, particularly in a constituency where 70% of the 4 million people are Muslims and where the Indian Union Muslim League is very popular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the cultural and economic threads being woven by the BJP might be expanding the party\u2019s big tent. Salam extols the development progress under Modi, while women show favorability because of Modi\u2019s championing of the ban on \u201ctriple talaq\u201d<\/a> instant divorces, a custom that had disadvantaged Muslim women unfairly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Indian Muslims should be wary of this political strategy as it occurs amid a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment and the deliberate promotion of the Hindu-nationalist ideology that was present well before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and remains to the present day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recall the emphasis on \u201chyper-nationalism\u201d after the terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir<\/a>, where anti-Muslim sentiment was encouraged \u2013 as evidenced by right-wing BJP members of Parliament including actor and former MP Paresh Rawal, who begged news channels not to allow \u201cIndian terrorist sympathizers to spew venom against our dear motherland\u201d and to \u201clet those maggots die in their own filth.\u201d<\/a> Gradually, the hyper-nationalism was condensed into a supposedly softer cultural appeal through the now-modified ideology termed Hindutva 2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adding weight to a counter-argument that Modi\u2019s Muslim appeal is merely electoral manipulation are his recent comments in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, where previously the BJP swept all 25 seats<\/a>. The prime minister was accused of reactivating anti-Muslim tropes<\/a> as he labeled Muslims \u201cinfiltrators\u201d and accused the Congress Party of aiming to redistribute India\u2019s wealth to \u201cthose who have more children,\u201d referring to the Muslim population he had spoken of earlier in his address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BJP and Modi have long accused former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the opposition Indian Congress of being too favorable to Muslims<\/a>. The idea of a 6,000 rupee universal basic income for the poorest 20% of households is hardly the massive redistribution of wealth Modi claims it to be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modi\u2019s Hindu nationalist drive has come at the expense of the Muslim population. A string of setbacks started with the revocation of autonomy in Jammu and Kashmir<\/a>. Then came the enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Law, which allowed members of some religious minorities who entered India from neighboring Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan prior to December 2014 to claim Indian citizenship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International human rights groups denounced the law as discriminatory<\/a> as Muslims were specifically excluded from its benefits. The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights also expressed concern<\/a>, saying the law is \u201cfundamentally discriminatory in nature and in breach of India\u2019s international human rights obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Late last year, as Modi switched India\u2019s foreign policy decidedly toward Israel after the October 7 Hamas attack, anti-Muslim sentiment jumped. Exploiting the grievances felt by Hindu nationalists toward nearby Pakistan, extremists on the right are using the same cultural and religious symbolism to flood social media with hateful messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right-wing accounts sharing misleading videos are often connected with hate toward Islam<\/a>. More recently, fake news videos circulating on YouTube have praised Modi<\/a> while proliferating conspiracy theories. For example, Muslims in Kerala are accused of wanting to make the southern state an \u201cIslamic State.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dual messages, one divisive and cultural and the other nationalist and predatory, continue in a delicate balance until the end of the Lok Sabha elections. It\u2019s important for the BJP to contest seats in states like Rajasthan; while the BJP knows it is dominant, the 2023 Assembly election revealed<\/a> that the Congress\u2019s share of the vote did not precipitously decline despite a loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BJP might also take advantage of intra-party problems, attempting to pick up votes from the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh<\/a>, which sought to shed a \u201cMuslim-Yadav\u201d label in order to attract other members of other castes that have moved closer to the BJP in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It can also take advantage of the Indian Congress\u2019s tactical mistakes, such as in Maharashtra in India\u2019s west where it nominated no Muslim candidates<\/a> out of a total of 48, which could depress Muslim turnout.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the electoral tactics are clear, a genuine BJP appeal to Muslim voters in India remains both baffling and disingenuous. Some have argued the 2024 elections are an opportunity to move beyond the \u201cpolitics of negativity<\/a>\u201d while ignoring the incandescent hate that drives the right-wing electorate. The audacity on India\u2019s right beggars belief. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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