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January 31, 2015 0 Comment Jamshaid Ashraf

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Sahara Urdu: For those who have been misleading Muslims, the time has come to shut shop

Sahara Urdu’s coverage on Jamshaid Ashraf and his mission to raise awareness amongst the Muslims in Bihar through the Muslim Bedaari Muhim (Muslim Awareness Movement) on how most “Secular” parties only use secularism as an excuse to win vote banks, and how the BJP is truly focused on development and through development lies the path for true secularism.

Jamshaid Ashraf at one Muslim Bedaari Muhim (Muslim Awareness Movement) event

January 31, 2015 0 Comment Jamshaid Ashraf

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Sahara Urdu: Through sports, we can rise to the heights of success: Jamshaid Ashraf

Sahara Urdu’s coverage of Jamshaid Ashraf’s support and involvement in encouraging sports for the youth. Photos from the Volleyball tournament in Mir Alipur.

Jamshaid Ashraf at the Volleyball tournament held in Mir Alipur

December 2, 2014 0 Comment Jamshaid Ashraf

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Daily Mail: BJP appoints Jamshaid Ashraf to woo Lalu’s Muslim and Yadav voters

With less than a year to go before the next Assembly elections in Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has set out to win over the two communities that form the core of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad’s vote bank.

Muslims and Yadavs, who together account for 28 per cent of Bihar’s voter population, were key to the RJD’s three consecutive stints in power.

The strategy is part of BJP’s efforts to counter the challenge posed by the RJD’s alliance with the JD(U) and the Congress, and alter the poll equations in the state.

To this end, the BJP has deployed former minister Jamshed Ashraf to draw Muslims into the party’s fold.

Ashraf, resigned from the Nitish Kumar government in 2010 for alleging corruption in the excise department, has kicked off a ‘Muslim Bedari Yatra’ (Muslim awakening march) in pursuit of his brief.

Many Muslim leaders joined the BJP for the yatra in Patna on Sunday.

At the rally, state BJP leaders said minorities in PM Narendra Modi’s Gujarat had a much better life than in Bihar.

“Altogether 37,000 Muslims went on Haj from Gujarat last year while Bihar could not even send its quota of 10,000. “Only 6,700 people went from the state,” former Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi said, adding that at least 10,000 of Bihar’s Muslim students had travelled to Gujarat for studies.

Promising a riot-free regime in Bihar, Sushil said the BJP would give a fair share of tickets to Muslims for the forthcoming Assembly elections.

As for the Yadavs, political observers say the BJP’s decision to appoint Bhupender Yadav as Bihar in-charge for the polls is aimed at wooing the community.

The induction of Ram Kripal Yadav in the NDA Government is a step in the same direction.

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The Telegraph: BJP bid to reach out to Muslims

Jamshed Ashraf and Mangal Pandey at Bedaari Yatra

The state unit of the BJP on Sunday flagged off its Bedari Yatra to reach out to Muslims.

Bedari in Urdu means creating awareness. The yatra of the party aims to send the message to the Muslims that the BJP is not untouchable and that the real issue for the minority community was development.

Former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, BJP state unit president Mangal Pandey and former JDU minister in the erstwhile Nitish Kumar cabinet Jamshed Ashraf flagged off the yatra.

Ashraf, a former excise minister and former JDU MLA from Sahebpur Kamal, joined the BJP this year. He said: “The so-called pseudo secular parties (Congress, RJD, JDU) have been talking about secularism and communalism, but today the real issue for Muslims is development.”

Ashraf said that during the time of Independence around 15 per cent of Muslims were below the poverty line but the same figure had gone up to 45 per cent now. “If the secular parties are the real well-wishers of Muslims, why the condition of the minority community has not improved?” asked Ashraf.

Reaching out to the Muslim community BJP state unit chief Pandey said: “We have been hearing complaints from Muslims that the party does not give enough representation to minority communities during ticket distribution in Assembly and general elections, but the real issue is that we are not getting enough potential minority leaders.”

The BJP’s yatra will cover the entire state. It will reach Katihar on December 14 and Arwal on December 22.

The venue of the function was not big as it was held at Vidyapati Bhavan having a capacity of around 1000 people, but senior BJP leaders attended the event postponing their engagements to prove it was a significant event. Modi did not board the 12.30pm flight to New Delhi, as planned earlier, to attend the event in which 300 people joined the BJP with Sarwar Abdin, who runs a private school at Rajendra Nagar. The former deputy chief minister later flew to Delhi at 2pm.

According to sources in the BJP, the state unit of the party has been asked by the central high command to include more members from the minority community. There are even talks of setting targets to ensure that at least 10 per cent of the members are Muslims and from other minority groups.

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November 30, 2014 0 Comment Jamshaid Ashraf

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Zee News: Former JD(U) Minister Jamshaid Ashraf joins BJP

Patna: Former JD(U) minister Jamshed Ashraf on Sunday joined BJP along with his supporters in presence of senior leader Sushil Kumar Modi and the party’s Bihar unit chief Mangal Pandey.

Welcoming Ashraf to the party, Modi said his presence would strengthen BJP and the cause of minorities in the state.

“Welfare work for the Muslims is suffering in the state after JD(U) parted ways with BJP. Many projects were taken up when we were in the government,” said Modi, who is Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council.

Modi, also former deputy chief minister, said BJP would give tickets to more minority community members in the coming Assembly elections and added that the party has given tickets to 20 Muslims in the ongoing Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections.

Ashraf said barring the 2002 Gujarat riots, 47,000 big and small communal riots took place in the country since Independence during the rule of non-BJP parties.

“Various parties have indulged in vote bank politics by instilling fear of BJP among the Muslims. The minority community needs to come to the mainstream today. Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to see Quran in one hand of a Muslim and computer in the other,” Ashraf added.

Ashraf, who had been a JD(U) leader, was axed by then Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in 2010 after he had alleged that officers working in the CM’s Secretariat were involved in a multi-crore excise scam in the state.

Ashraf also called for construction of houses at Mecaa by the Centre for pilgrims.

Meanwhile, Pandey flagged off ‘Bedari Yatra’ during which Ashraf would visit all the districts of the state.

The yatra is being organised to remove suspicion from the mind of Muslims about BJP.

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November 30, 2014 0 Comment Jamshaid Ashraf

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Outlook India: Former JD(U) Minister Jamshaid Ashraf Joins BJP

Former JD(U) minister Jamshaid Ashraf today joined BJP along with his supporters in presence of senior leader Sushil Kumar Modi and the party’s Bihar unit chief Mangal Pandey.