Shia community support the BJP during the 2019 LokSabha elections

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Rashtriya Shia Samaj (RSS) leader and BJP MLC Bukkhal Nawab has said the Shia muslims are in favour of the construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya at the disputed site.  He said the Shia community would unitedly support the BJP during the 2019 LokSabha elections and Narendra Modi would again be the prime minister of India. He said there was no political organization to represent the Shia muslim even as their share in muslim population is close to 18 percent.  He said so far only the BJP has taken concrete measures for the welfare of the Shia community. Recalling the measures taken by the former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the BJP MLC said   the then BJP led government in Uttar Pradesh lifted the 20 year old ban on the religious process of the Shia community in Lucknow.  He said Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, a Shia muslims has been made a Union cabinet minister by the Prime Minister Modi.  He said the BJP elevated me and Mohsin Raza as MLC and Raza is also a minister in Yogi Adityanath government. Besides this he said Haider Abbas has been appointed as the chairman of the UP minority’s commission and Gairul Hasan Rizvi has been appointed the chairman of the national commission of minorities.  He said the chief minister Yogi Adityanath cancelled the holidays after the birth and death anniversary of several great persons but he retained the holiday   on the birth anniversary of Imam hazrat Ali.

The Shia leader said contrary to the record of the BJP, several Shia leaders including himself were sent to jail by the Bahujan Samaj party government headed by Mayawati.  He said during the previous Samajwadi party government the Shia community was subjected to worst kind of state repression at the behest of the senior Samajwadi party leader Mohammed Azam Khan. He said during the Congress led UPA government at the Center the senior   Congress leader Ahmed Patel Rajya sabha MP, helped the land mafia to occupy the land of the graveyard of the Shia community in Delhi.  He said now it’s the high time for the Shia community to close its rank and give its enblock support to the BJP.