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The BJP may have decided to keep Gujarat CM Narendra Modi out of its Bihar election campaign, but it is realizing that it is impossible to keep Gujarat out of Bihar politics.
Muslim clerics from Gujarat are in great demand during the assembly election campaign in Bihar, as both Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) roll out a red carpet for clergymen who can woo th seemingly splintered Muslim voters.
Two clerics, Maulana Ghulam Syed Ashrafi and Maulana Shabbit Ahmed Siddiqui, who flew in to Patna from Ahmedabad were presented at press conference addressed by Paswan last Wednesday, "Where was the so called messiah of Muslims when Gujarat was burning in communal flames", the two clergymen asked.
They also lambasted and criticized RJD displaying Godhra posters for the purpose of eliciting votes of the community.
The Lalu camp isn't impressed. The chairman of Bihar Minority Commission, Sohail Ahmed, said, "Both these so called clergymen from Ahmedabad basically hail from Bihar and they are very low down in the hierarchy to make any impact on the Muslim clergymen from Gujarat who could express solidarity with Lalu Prasad to prevent his Muslim vote bank from slipping away into the hands of the Congress and LJP. It is learnt that some senior clerics based in Ahmedabad a and Surat has been contacted for the purpose and they could be visiting Bihar in the second and third phase of the election.
The flames of Godhra are, of course,
being kept alive not only though the timely publication of the interim
report of the Justice Banerjee committee, but also Godhra posters,
which have appeared at several places in Bhagalpur, Gaya and now
Kishanganj.
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