LUCKNOW: Nearly a years after it was hit by common riots in 2013, the west UP district of Muzaffarnagar is all set to hold a BJP-backed mega-convention on Hindu-Muslim unity .
The convention, titled Sneh Milan: Ek Desh Ek DNA is most likely to be organised in between March 15 and March 20, according to a proposition moved by UP BJP Minority Morcha, which has actually likewise welcomed CM Yogi as the chief visitor.
The morcha chief, Basit Ali, kept that Muzaffarnagar has been picked for the occasion due to the fact that it is the land where former PM Chaudhary Charan Singh try out the concept of Jat-Muslim unity which was later hijacked by the Congress and Samajwadi Party in their quote to obtain power .
The idea is to bring together the leaders of Muslim and Hindu communities on one stage and project their unity, Ali told TOI.
Sources said that the celebration plans to welcome local leaders of various communities including Jat, Gujjar and Thakur from nearby west UP districts, consisting of Meerut, Bijnor, Shamli and Saharanpur, to the occasion.
Ali insisted that every neighborhood needs to understand that their forefathers were the same .
All they need to acknowledge it publicly ...
this would strengthen the social and political fabric of the region and in other places, he said.Observers said that the BJP has actually been making concerted efforts to munch at the really foundation of the opposition by connecting to the Muslims which represent around 20% of the electorate in UP.
BJPs overtures towards minorities have been attaining much significance in UP where the saffron outfit faces stiff political resistance from the SP-RLD combine.
BJP sources explained that the party has actually been looking for to tweak its technique and win over the minorities after PM Modi gave a clarion call to reach out to socio-economically backwards Pasmanda Muslims.