Uttar Pradesh’s lone Muslim minister Danish Azad Ansari on Sunday claimed that his community is showing warmth towards the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The Ballia resident was on Friday inducted into the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government as a minister of state and needs to be elected to the state assembly or legislative council in the next six months to continue in the post.
Ansari said the Muslim community is now clearing the “confusion” created by opposition parties like the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and Congress. “BJP is now getting the love of Muslim society and love for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh. He said that the Chief Minister of the state Yogi Adityanath is continuously growing in the Muslim community.
Confidence in the BJP is being instilled in the community.
He claimed that the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and the 2022 assembly elections indicate this. But in the recently concluded UP assembly elections, BJP did not field any Muslim candidate. Its ally Apna Dal (S) nominated Hyder Ali Khan from Saur in Rampur, and was defeated.
The previous Adityanath government also had a Muslim member – Mohsin Raza, Minister of State. Ansari claimed that the opposition used to consider Muslims only as vote banks but the Muslim community has now understood that SP, BSP and Congress have always betrayed them. He said that the Muslim community has realized that only Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will work for their true development.
The minister said that Modi has dreamed of making India a global leader and all the youth and the Muslim community will have to play an important role in making it a reality. He said that it is the dream of Modi and Adityanath that every section of the society should join the mainstream of development, and they will fulfill it.
He said that efforts should be made to take government schemes to the grassroots level. He said that the Adityanath government will take inputs on what needs to be done for the betterment of the Muslim community, especially the youth. Ansari said that education is a fundamental right and synonymous with development and he will make special efforts to take the Muslim community forward in this area.
The minister said that he would take an initiative to link urban schools with technical education. Ansari joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in 2010 when he was studying at the University of Lucknow. He has done his post graduation in Public Administration and Quality Management.
He was nominated to the Urdu Language Committee in the previous Adityanath government in October 2018 and was made general secretary of the BJP’s minority cell just before the assembly elections. The portfolios for the members of the new Adityanath ministry are yet to be announced. The BJP and its allies have won 273 seats in the 403-member state assembly.
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