*NEW DELHI — *Results of the Assembly elections in Haryana and Maharashtra,and by-polls in several key states could be seen as a slap on the face ofthe hate politics of the ruling BJP, Sangh Parivar and their affiliates.
Across the country, as many as 19 Muslims have won these latest Assemblypolls – 3 in Haryana, 10 in Maharashtra, 2 each in Bihar and Kerala and 1each in Assam and Uttar Pradesh.
More importantly than the number, the Muslim candidates have won bydirectly defeating BJP or its allies on 12 seats while on 3 seats saffroncamp finished on 3rd or 4th position.
For days around the polling day (Monday), there had been organised, hatefulcampaigns against Muslims on social media – first against the Prophet,which was followed by #CompleteBoycottofMuslims. However, the electionresults of Muslim candidates show common people have rejected the hatecampaign against the community. Moreover, the results, announced onThursday, also reaffirmed that BJP is not invincible, rather people havestarted withdrawing from it despite the absence of any strong, attractivealternative and narrative.
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In the Assembly elections in Haryana, the hotbed of Hindutva politics inrecent years that culminated into series of mob violence and mob lynchingin the name of cow, three Muslim candidates have emerged as victoriouslawmakers. They defeated the BJP on two seats and the one seat where theMuslim candidate defeated Independent, BJP finished 3rd.
