Rahul Gandhi's Yanad Lok Sabha seat raises more Muslims than Muslims?

Rahul Gandhi's Yanad Lok Sabha seat raises more Muslims than Muslims? - Fact check

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday filed his nomination from the Yanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala.

On Thursday, when Rahul Gandhi came to register his nomination from the Yanad seat with his sister Priyanka Gandhi, #RahulTharangam (Rahul's whim) on Twitter was doing the trunk.

Last week, the Congress party had formally announced that the 'Gandhi family's traditional seat' would be contesting from the Yanad seat of Kerala except Amethi (UP).

Prior to joining, Rahul Gandhi said, "I wanted to send a message to South India that we are standing with you, that's the reason I have decided to contest from Kerala."

Rahul Gandhi has been elected as MP from Uttar Pradesh's Amethi Parliamentary Area three times. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, he defeated BJP leader Smriti Irani by placing the Amethi seat in his name.

The party's decision is seen enthusiastically in Congress workers and the party is claiming that Rahul Gandhi has made this decision to strengthen the Congress's hold in South India.

However, the BJP considers it 'a decision taken in the fear'.

BJP president Amit Shah has said that Rahul Gandhi is running away from fear of BJP.

On this, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ridiculed Rahul Gandhi on the selection of Lok Sabha seat and said that religion has been chosen based on religion.

Among the right-wing Twitter users and Facebook groups, people are writing through some TV reports that 'Rahul Gandhi is contesting from there because of the number of Muslims in Wayanad.'

But there is also a class on social media that disagree with this logic of right-wing people. These people say that in the Parliament of Wayanad, Muslims and Christians have lesser population than Hindus.

In this regard, we investigate both the claims found on social media.

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First claim:
Most Hindus population in the Yanad meeting

Fact: People who are reporting social media in the Wayanad Parliament, about 50% of the population of Hindus are actually sharing the population data of Wayanad district.

People are not doing the distance between the Wayanad district and the Lok Sabha seat of Wayanad.

These people have shared the 2011 census data released by the Ministry of Home Affairs on social media.

According to this data, the population of Hindus in Wayanad district was much higher than that of Muslims.

By 2011, there were about 50% of Hindu and around 30% Muslim population in the Wayanad district.

But it is wrong to show the population of Wayanad district as the number of voters in the Yanad parliamentary constituency.

Another claim
Malappuram district in Wayanad has more than 50% Muslim voters.

In order to prove this claim, many types of people have been shared on social media, in which the population of Muslims in the Wayanad Parliamentary area is shown between 50% and 60% of the population.

People have written that a large area of ​​Malappuram district, which has Muslim population in the Yanad Lok Sabha seat, falls.

There is a grip on the Muslim League party in this area. Because of this, the number of Muslims in the parliament of Wayanad is more in number.

Fact:
After the new demarcation in 2009, the Yanad of the political existence of Northern Kerala was created by acquiring three districts of the Lok Sabha constituency (Kozhikode, Malappuram and Yanad).

In the 13 assembly constituencies in Kozhikad district, only one assembly seat comes under the wanad Lok Sabha seat.
The area of ​​three assembly seats in the Yanad district comes in the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat.
Only 3 assembly seats out of 16 in Malappuram district are in the Yanad Lok Sabha seat.
In 2011, the population of Muslims in Malappuram district was much higher than the Hindus.

According to government statistics, about 74% of Muslims in this district and 24% of them live in the district.

But one-fourth area of ​​Malappuram district is connected to the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat.

There are 13,25,788 voters, if the voters of the three districts of Yanad Lok Sabha seat are paired.

The number of registered voters is much less than the number of people living in this area.

According to the Kerala elections, about 75,000 new voters have joined the 2014 Lok Sabha election on Wayanad seat.

But how many are Hindu voters and how many are Muslim voters? No official figure of this is present with the Election Commission.

'There is no account of voter's religion'

An Election Commission spokesman said, "In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the number of registered voters in the Wanad parliamentary constituency was 12,47,326, which is now increasing."

"Election Commission does not have any account of how many Hindus or Muslim voters are in it."

'Equal population of both'

A private website called 'Data Net' has prepared data from different parliamentary constituencies of India on the basis of religion.

Doctor R. That Thakral is the director of this website who has written a book called 'Election Atlas of India'.

He said that according to the figures census of 2001 and 2011, he has prepared the data based on the 2008 Demographic Report and the list of voters declared on the village level revealed by the Government of India.

Thakral said that the population of Hindus and Muslims in the rural areas with majority rural population is almost identical.