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Days aft Union Minister and elder Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) person Giriraj Singh had said helium did not privation the votes of the “namak haram” (traitors) portion referring to Muslims, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar connected Saturday appealed to the assemblage to vote.
Mr. Kumar made his entreaty connected societal media level X, listing retired the enactment done by his authorities for Muslims. “I humbly petition each of you to not to autumn into immoderate confusion. Remember the enactment our authorities has done for you and determine whom to ballot for,” Mr. Kumar said.
Nothing had been done for Muslim radical successful the State earlier 2005, Mr. Kumar said, without naming erstwhile Chief Ministers Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi.
“Those who were successful powerfulness successful Bihar utilized the Muslim assemblage lone arsenic a ballot bank. Communal clashes were taking spot often successful antithetic parts of the State. Since November 24, 2005, erstwhile our authorities was formed, continuous efforts person been made for the Muslim community,” Mr. Kumar said.
Mr. Singh fuelled a contention with remarks helium made astatine a rally successful Arwal connected October 18, which went viral connected societal media the pursuing day. In a video clip, Mr. Singh is seen criticising members of the number assemblage for not voting for the BJP despite, helium claimed, benefiting from assorted authorities schemes.
The Chief Minister addressed Muslims successful his post. “You radical cognize that successful the twelvemonth 2025-26, the fund of the Minority Welfare Department was accrued 306 times, with a proviso of ₹1,080.47 crore. To guarantee that communal incidents bash not hap successful the State, the fencing of delicate graveyards was started successful 2006. So far, much than 8,000 graveyards person been fenced,” Mr. Kumar said.
In the run-up to the Assembly election, successful consultation with the Muslim community, 1,273 further graveyards had been identified for fencing, of which 746 had been completed, and enactment connected the remaining graveyards would beryllium finished soon, Mr. Kumar said.
“When Opposition parties were successful power, communal riots took spot successful Bhagalpur successful 1989. The authorities failed to halt the riots, and the erstwhile governments did thing for the victims of communal riots. When we got the accidental to serve, the Bhagalpur communal riots were investigated, strict enactment was taken against the culprits, and compensation was provided to the victims,” Mr. Kumar said.
Financial assistance successful the signifier of pensions was being fixed to families affected by the riots, helium said.
Since 2006, madrasas had been registered and granted authorities recognition, and teachers successful madrasas were being paid salaries equivalent to those of authorities teachers, Mr. Kumar said. Since 2007, a one-time assistance of ₹10,000 had been provided to abandoned/divorced Muslim women to assistance them summation employment, a sum that had present been accrued to ₹25,000.
Bihar CM listed retired the schemes for the upliftment of the Mulsim community, including ‘Talimi Markaz’ and ‘Hunar’, isolated from scholarships, escaped coaching, hostels, grants, and different schemes for students and youth.
“Now, during the Bihar Assembly election, immoderate radical are erstwhile again trying to represent themselves arsenic well-wishers of the Muslim community. This is each deception. Various temptations and tactics are being utilized solely to unafraid the votes of the Muslim community, portion nary efforts are being made to springiness them immoderate important representation,” Mr. Kumar said.
Without immoderate discrimination, Muslims were receiving due practice successful each field, Mr. Kumar said, whereas erstwhile governments had utilized the Muslim assemblage lone for votes, giving them nary stock successful power, helium alleged.
Out of 243 Assembly seats to beryllium contested successful the forthcoming Assembly election, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which successful Bihar comprises the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), the BJP, the Lok Janshakti Party-Ram Vilas (LJP-RV), the Hindustani Awam Morcha-Secular (HAM-S), and the Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM), has fixed tickets to lone 5 Muslim candidates. This includes four seats to Muslim candidates by the JD(U), and 1 by the LJP(RV).
Muslims relationship for 17.7% of Bihar’s population, and their votes are decisive successful 87 Assembly constituencies.
