Till Budget Session, get together had three Muslim MPs; all, nevertheless, within the Rajya Sabha, and none in Lok Sabha
Till Budget Session, get together had three Muslim MPs; all, nevertheless, within the Rajya Sabha, and none in Lok Sabha
The absence of the title of Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi from the record of BJP nominees to the Rajya Sabha, as his personal time period ends, will imply that the get together could have no Muslim member in both House of Parliament as the present spherical of Upper House polls conclude.
Till the Budget Session, the BJP had three Muslim MPs; all, nevertheless, within the Rajya Sabha, and none within the Lok Sabha. These MPs — Mr. Naqvi, BJP spokesperson Syed Zafar Islam and journalist-turned-politician M.J. Akbar are all finishing their tenures by July and until renominated, will find yourself with BJP having no Muslim face in Parliament. Mr. Islam is retiring on July 4 and Mr. Akbar on June 29.
In the Lok Sabha, the bigger National Democratic Alliance has only one Muslim member, Mehboob Ali Kaiser, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) MP from Khagaria in Bihar, as all six BJP candidates who contested the polls in 2019 misplaced. There is a chat that Mr. Naqvi could also be requested to contest the Lok Sabha bypoll from Rampur after the seat was vacated by Samajwadi Party chief Azam Khan who selected to retain his Assembly seat after the current Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, however that’s purely speculative at this level.
Source: www.thehindu.com
