Muslims come to Narendra Modi’s party wearing skull caps,say he’s forgiven

BJP’s Muslim leaders cut 63 kg cakes in Ahmedabad and Vadodara while others,wearing skull caps,made beeline to felicitate Modi at Gandhinagar’s Town Hall. Prominence was given to Muslims present at the Town Hall event. BJP’s Minority Morcha chief Mahebubali Bawa Chisty said that one lakh Muslims would join the party by September 25,the birthday of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay and the culmination day of the drive.

Modi tried to deflect attention from his birthday to say that he would rather celebrate it as Vishwakarma Jayanti and Hyderabad liberation day. “People are fed up. Inflation,Corruption. People are waiting for elections like they wait for rains during a scorching summer. The next elections are perhaps the most awaited elections in the history of India,” Modi said in Town Hall,which was packed with people from various communities.

Muslims come to Modi’s party wearing skull caps,say he’s forgiven

About Hyderabad liberation,he said,“On September 17,Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had freed Hyderabad from the clutches of Nizam.”

The event,organised by the Gujarat Abhiwadan Samiti,was a repeat of the Sadbhavna Mission that he had launched in 2011 on his birthday to reach out to minority communities.

Shabbir Nooruddin Sodawala,the president of Dawoodi Bohra Samaj,who had come from Vapi with seven members of his community,said,“Muslims in our locality no more associate Modi with the (2002) communal riots. In the last 10 years of his rule,there hasn’t been a single incident of rioting. People have forgiven him for the riots. Peace has helped our business grow. We believe that once he becomes the prime minister he will ensure development in the entire country.”

“The leaders of Bohra community should sit right at the centre of the audience and other members of the community can take their seats in the rows at the back,” said the anchor of the event,instructing the audience,which included members of the royal families of Baroda and Rajkot,VHP members,religious heads of Swaminarayan sect and members of the Dalit Samaj,Brahmin Samaj,cricketers,ex-servicemen,dairy farmers,Hindu,Parsi and Christian priests.

“Modi is the lone political figure today who has the ability to free the country of debt,create jobs and reduce day-to-day sufferings of the common man. He has a clean image and tremendous will power,” said Shabuddin A Multani,a maulvi from Tapi district,who sat with Swaminarayan sadhus. Asked if members of the minority community in his area have forgiven Modi for the riots,Multani said,“People don’t think he did the 2002 riots.”

Earlier,Modi began his day with blessings from his 94-year-old mother Hiraba. He also met former CM and bete noire Keshubhai Patel.