Upananda Brahmachari | HENB | Mumbai : In a very critical turn of communal events, Hyderabad-based MIM on Sunday made its maiden entry into the Maharashtra assembly pocketing two seats and got about 1% vote as a début in the Maratha politics and Mumbai Mayanagri.
Alleged communal kingpin of Hyderabad and Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen’s (AIMIM) candidates won Aurangabad Central and Byculla seat in Mumbai defeating Shivsena and BJP nominees respectively.
Former journalist Imtiyaz Jaleel trounced Sena’s former MP and ex-mayor Pradeep Jaiswal by 19982 votes in Aurungabad Central as Warish Yusuf Pathan beat BJP’s Madhukar Chavan by 1,357 votes in Byculla seat.
In Aurangabad Central the MIM winner Imtiyaz Jaleel got 61843 winning votes (maximum of the Muslim block vote) while Hindu votes divided between BJP and Shivsena as BJP candidate Tanwani Kishanchand Lekhraj got 40770 votes and Shivsena’s Pradeep Jaiswal got 41861 accordingly. NCP’s Hindu candidate also got 11842 secular votes.
If there was no division of Hindu Votes between BJP and SS, certainly no radical Islamist person got any chance to win from Aurangabad (Central) seat anyway.
In the same manner MIM candidate from Byculla seat got the advantage out of the division of Hindu votes. Akhil Bhartiya Sena’s Geeta Gawli, daughter of mafia don-turn-politician Arun Gawli, was in the fray in Byculla. The BJP candidate Madhukar Chavan got 23957 votes and Geeta Ajay Gawli got 20895 votes. Here Advocate Warish Yusuf Pathan of AIMIM got 25314 votes as a winning spree. Warish Yusuf Pathan beat BJP’s Madhukar Chavan by only 1,357 votes in Byculla. Shivsena did not file any candidate here to support Akhil Bhartiya Sena’s candidate as a mark of their inclination to party’s one time friend Arun Gawli.
Madhukar Chavan, Byculla’s one time Congress ex-legislator and the present BJP contestant said on defeat that, “MIM won because Hindu votes got split between four Marathi speaking candidates (MNS, ABS, BJP and Congress). The Muslim voters have won them the seat. But, this kind of religion induced mandate is harmful for democracy.”
Even as political observers warned that MIM could eat into Muslim votes courtesy its provocative brand of politics, the victory came as a huge surprise as Byculla houses a large Marathi-speaking community. Political observers also added that a series of campaigns by MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi played a pivotal role in turning tables at Byculla.
MIM had fielded 24 candidates in the poll for the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly in the first time and got a major share of Muslim vote bank. MIM got a total votes 489614 this time of Maharashtra Assembly Election, 2014.
Prateek Borate a follower of Hindu Existence from Byculla expressed his concerned that the present BJP-Shivasena leadership had shattered the dream of Late Bala Saheb Thakre and Late Gopinath Munde. BJP-Shiv Sena must be united again to check the upcoming invasion of MIM in Maharashtra, otherwise the original site of Marathas will be a place of Aurangjeb, instead of Shivaji Maharaj and Maharashtra will be a Muslim nation.
Advocate S P Chapalgaonkar from Aurangabad told this writer that Hindus understand many things but not their real prospects. Secular and Muslims never think about the good for the Hindus. In democracy number plays the vital role, but Hindus are still reluctant to think their positive role for making Hindu Vote Bank. As, Hindus are politically divided the anti-Hindus are getting chances to win. We must learn a lesson from this election and must make a strong Hindu Vote Bank for the safety, security and prosperity of Hindu people.
Last tally in seat perspective stands at Bharatiya Janata Party – 122, Shivsena – 63, Indian National Congress – 42, Nationalist Congress Party – 41, Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi – 3, Peasants And Workers Party of India – 3, All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen – 2 and rests – 12 out of 288 total strength of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.
Though the most double standard and opportunist NCP has already expressed their support from outside to make a BJP Govt. in the State, it will be a fatal for the Hindu politics in Maharashtra. Rather public of Maharashtra want to get a BJP-Shivasena reunion in Maharashtra to resume a golden era of Martha politics to run an able, stable and applicable Govt. in Maharashtra.
Source : Hindu Existence
