Appeasement politics

The development comes ahead of the upcoming 6th phase of Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal.

Mamata Banerjee stirred the hornet's nest on Saturday (18th May) by attacking Hindu organisations, working in West Bengal.

Under the section of 'Minority Welfare', the manifesto read, "After caste census, we will undertake to provide reservation as per their population."

Working President of VHP, Alok Kumar claimed that some time ago Rajasthan Police had called him 'innocent' and added that the arrest of Monu Manesar was carried out to appease the Muslim vote bank.

8 years after the honorarium scheme for Imams and muezzins came into force, Mamata Banerjee announced allowance for Hindu priests in September 2020.

Muslim mob indulged in violence over the installation of welcome gates by Hindus ahead of Mahashivaratri in Palamu of Jharkhand.

With Pasmanda Muslims forming 70-80% of the Muslims, the BJP furthering this trope becomes particularly dangerous. They are essentially insinuating then, that most Muslims today converted to Islam because of the discrimination they faced when they were Hindus and that they are still in bad economic and social conditions because of their identity when they were Hindus.

In January 2020 it was reported how Aam Aadmi Party’s Amanatullah Khan and Kejriwal’s Delhi government was systematically settling illegal Rohingya immigrants in Delhi.

Shehzad Poonawalla criticized Rahul Gandhi for appeasement politics by posting picture with girl child in hijab

It appears that the benefits being extended to the Pasmanda community appear to be an extension of PM Modi's 'sabka saath, sabka vikas' policy he has been talking about. Even the BJP knows that this policy has neither received any political gains nor does it expect to gain anything.