Peace Party fields SC,Muslim women

The Peace Party,which aims to make a Muslim UPs chief minister by following BSPs methods,is attempting its own form of social enigeering.

Written by RAMENDRA SINGH

Lucknow | January 24, 2012 04:55 AM IST

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The Peace Party,which aims to make a Muslim UPs chief minister by following BSPs methods,is attempting its own form of social enigeering. In an attempt to highlight the issue of what it calls Dalit Muslims,for whom it wants SC status,the party has fielded two rather interesting candidates.

Shabnam alias Sarvesh,its candidate for Chandausi (SC) constituency in Bhimnagar district,and Aisha alias Rani in Puranpur(SC) constituency of Pilibhit district,are both scheduled caste women married to Muslims. While Sarvesh is married to Shauqin Ahmed,a farmer from Thakurdwara tehsil of Moradabad,Rani is married to Rizwan Khan,a farmer from Puranpur in Pilibhit district. Shabnams maiden name is Sarvesh Jatav. Her husband Ahmed says he married Sarvesh in 1996.

It was a love-marriage. Sarvesh was the resident of nearby Hauspura village,Ahmed said,and added Chandausi has about 1lakh Muslims and about 2 lakh scheduled castes.

He says the chances of his wife winning the election are high as Chandausi has been reserved constituency for more than 30 years. About one lakh Muslim voters this time have a candidate who belongs to a Muslim community and they would definitely support her,he says. Sarvesh says it was in 2005 that she had decided to contest the election of pradhan from Abdullahpur Leda village which was then reserved for SCs and she got her SC certificate to contest the seat.

Sarvesh is the first person from Ahmeds family to have contested an election. Later,in 2010 she won the election for the member of Moradabad Zila Panchayat,also a reserved seat. Claiming she will get support from Muslims as well as Dalits,Sarvesh is confident of winning the seat. She says during her earlier contests as pradhan and Zila Panchayat member too she got the votes from Muslims and Dalits. Sarvesh says if she won the election she would fight for giving Scheduled Caste status to Dalit Muslims.

She also want my children to get the benefits which a scheduled caste child gets,she says referring to her sons Sanu,Sabu and daughter Tabassum. Sarvesh will be contesting against BSP sitting MLA Girish Chandra,BJP candidate Gulabo Devi,SP candidate Lakshmi Gautam,and Congress candidate Satish Premi. While Peace Partys Puranpur candidate Aisha alias Rani has also won the election for member of Pilibhit Zila Panchayat which was also reserved for scheduled castes,in 2010.

Aisha whose maiden name is Rani,belongs to the Kumhar caste. She got her scheduled caste certificate when she planned to contest for Zila Panchyats reserved seat. She says she met Rizwan when he used to drive a taxi in his locality in Puranpur town. She says there are about one lakh Muslims in Puranpur assembly constituency and she will get their votes as there is no other Muslim candidate contesting from the seat. Ranis husband Rizwan says. No one in my family has ever contested any election and it was my wife who contested the first election for Zila Panchayat member and got elected.

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Rani will contest against BJP candidate Ramratan Paswan,Congress candidate Sukhlal,BSP candidate Dinesh Bharti,and SP candidate Pritam Ram.