By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,
Jaipur (Rajasthan): In a new development that indicates Muslim organizations are getting politically active, the Rajasthan unit of All India Milli Council has launched a state-wide political awareness campaign focusing on Muslims.
The aim of a series of caravan for political awareness is to increase the voting percentage of Muslims in the state assembly elections due this year. The first caravan was flagged off for the Muslim-dominated Mewat region, says a report in The Hindu.
Milli Council’s state general secretary advocate Abdul Qayyum Ansari has been quoted saying that voting percentage of Muslims in the assembly elections has been declining over years. It was 40% in the last assembly elections in 2003. Unless the community takes active participation in the elections, they cannot expect their voice would be heard in the legislature, he said.
While the speakers in the caravan will not talk in support of any political party, the will try to convince the Muslim masses that their vote is important and casting vote is a duty in the democracy.