Lok Sabha: BJP progresses, Muslims go down

Election process for the 17th Lok Sabha has started in the country.

The special talk of this election is that the country's second largest religious population, the Muslim community, is being silent to some extent.

No Muslim organizations have kept their demand in elections this time, nor is the politics-related parties talking about their views.

If you talk about Gujarat, there are no more tickets for Muslim candidates here. The BJP has not given tickets to any Muslim candidate in the candidates declared, whereas the Congress has also given a ticket to Sher Khan in Bharuch.

It would be a question that if Muslims are not talking about elections, will there be a talk of Muslims in Lok Sabha after the elections?

Will their issues arise? Will the people who raise their issues reach the Lok Sabha in a fair number?

This is probably the first Lok Sabha election in the country after independence, when neither the issues of Muslims are in Agenda of political parties nor the representation of Muslims in the Lok Sabha is the priority of any party.

All parties like the Congress, Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal, fear that if they talk to Muslims, they will be polarized and the BJP will get direct benefit.

Even at the seats dominated by Muslims, it is feared to raise the Muslim candidates, because their polarization has not escaped their BJP to BJP.

After examining how good this fear is, it is known that since the BJP's seat has started to rise in the Lok Sabha, since then the representation of Muslims in the Lok Sabha has diminished.

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In the largest sitting state
There were only two MPs of BJP in the eighth Lok Sabha. In the Lok Sabha, 46 Muslim MPs were elected.

The number of Muslim MPs decreased to 22 if it won the BJP's highest 282 MPs in 2014.

Then in 2018, it increased to 23 by the result of Tassoon Hasan's victory on the national Lok Sabha ticket in the by-election by the Lok Sabha seat of the Kaira of Uttar Pradesh.

In this way, even a Muslim MP from Uttar Pradesh has reached the Lok Sabha. A Muslim MP did not win in the 2014 General Elections from Uttar Pradesh, which has 80 Lok Sabha seats.

Proportion of representation


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Based on the 2011 census, Muslims constitute 14.2% of the population.

People who talk of representation in the proportion of the population have the hope that according to this, there should be 77 Muslim MPs in the Lok Sabha comprising 545 MPs.

But the number of Muslim MPs in any Lok Sabha has not reached this figure.

The number of Muslim MPs in the first Lok Sabha was only 21. The total number of members of the Lok Sabha was 489. Muslim representation in the Lok Sabha was 4.29%.

In the last Lok Sabha, the representation of Muslims remained the lowest after independence.

At the end of the Lok Sabha tenure, there were 23 Muslim MPs who had 4.24% in the Lok Sabha which has 545 members.

After independence

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The percentage of Muslim MPs in the first Lok Sabha seems to be less than reasonable.

At that time the country split.

It is believed that in a large section of society, it may have been a spirit that the Muslims have taken their separate part in the form of Pakistan.

The victory of the lowest Muslim MPs in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, almost 67 years after the independence and division of the country, points towards their hatred in politics.

All the political parties on the Muslim vote are frightened that by withdrawing a large number of Muslim candidates, their Hindu voters can flee to BJP.

This is clearly evident by looking at the last Lok Sabha elections.

What does statistics say?

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In the 16th Lok Sabha, only 7 states of the country were represented by Muslims. Most 8 MPs won from West Bengal. 4 seats from Bihar, 3-3 from Jammu and Kashmir, 2 from Assam and 2 in Tamil Nadu and one Muslim Muslim from Telangana.

Apart from this, a MP from the Union Territory Lakshadweep was victorious.

In these 8 states and Union Territory, about 46% of the Muslims live in the country.

It has 179 seats in the Lok Sabha. There is no Muslim representation in the Lok Sabha from the remaining 22 states and 6 union territories of the country.

None of the Muslim MPs who live in 28 states and Union Territories, 54% of the Muslims, did not win, while these states have 364 seats in the Lok Sabha.

Representation of Muslims

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After Independence, 16 MPs who have won in the Lok Sabha elections, and their participation in every Lok Sabha, come out with interesting statistics.

The representation of Muslims has increased gradually from the first Lok Sabha to the sixth Lok Sabha.

Where only 21 Muslim MPs were elected in the first Lok Sabha, this number reached 34 in the Sixth Lok Sabha.

The Muslim percentage in the Lok Sabha has dropped to 4.2 from 4.29.

Number of Lows to Fall

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Muslim representation in the seventh Lok Sabha has suddenly jumped and the number of Muslims in the Lok Sabha reached at 49.

The Muslim percentage in the Lok Sabha was 9.26. In the eighth Lok Sabha elections held in 1984, 46 Muslim MPs won, but in 1989, the figure reached 33.

This was the time when the number of BJP MPs in the Lok Sabha began to increase. With this, the number of Muslim MPs in the Lok Sabha began to decline.

In 1989, the BJP won 86 MPs and the number of Muslim MPs in this election