By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: Muslim organisations have welcomed the victorious march of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
Association of Indian Muslims of America (AIMA), a US based organisation of Indian Muslims said in a press statement that the huge win of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Delhi election is a strong message to Indian politicians and parties that India is a composite, secular and equitable nation. And that despite recent assaults on this core national ethos by opportunistic politicians in recent years, the Indian nation strongly wishes its polity and ethos to be secular in character and equitable towards all.
“Indeed the AAP win in Delhi is a game-changer and the voice of the entire Indian mainstream to turn the nation’s polity away from the use of religion, caste, ethnicity and money-politics in the political process. It reaffirms again that India is a very diverse multi-religious, multi-ethnic nation that celebrates its composite cultural and political identity, and that wishes to help the deprived segments of society climb out of deprivation and be on a level playing field with others,” AIMA said.
The Indian Muslims living in the United States of America are hopeful that as AAP forms government in Delhi it will live up to the expectation of fairness that religious and ethnic minorities have from AAP and will be proactive in removing injustices, corruption and high-handedness from governance.
“The religious minorities including Muslim Indians only ask for fair treatment and help to uplift themselves, not any special privileges. Delhi’s Muslim voters have enthusiastically supported AAP in this election and now look forward to AAP government being successful in fulfilling its pledges to the common people, the Aam Aadmi,” it added.
The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) has also hailed the spectacular triumph of the AAP.
SDPI national president A. Sayeed in a statement has congratulated its leader Arvind Kejriwal for decimating BJP which has been flying high on the media hype of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He said AAP’s hurricane win, which in fact is tsunami for the BJP and its cohorts, is triumph of the common man. “It is triumph of democracy and triumph of secularism. The flame of hope begins to flicker again. Indians have rejected the politics of megalomaniacs. In the BJP jargon “Acche din to ab aaye hain” for the common man (Aam Aadmi),” he added.
Welfare Party of India has also welcomed the AAP’s victory, noting that the Delhi’s defeat of the BJP is symbolic of the count-down of the decimation of the Modi government.
Party general secretary P.C. Hamza in a statement said the election result has set the countdown of corporate appeasing and corrosive communal politics of Modi led BJP. “The Delhi election gradually turned to be a direct fight between two ideologies, one a pro corporate and polarising politics, with least regard for the poll promises given to the people during 2014 Lok Sabha elections and the other opposed to it. People felt it necessary to put a break to the onslaught against the secular and socialist fabric of the nation by the saffron party. They found the grand old Congress Party incapable and that was why the Aam Admi Party could gather support from all corners,” he added.