We will not allow anti-Muslim campaigns while in power: BJP ally JD(U)

New Delhi, NT Bureau: The Janata Dal (United) will not allow the incoming National Democratic Alliance(NDA) government at the Centre to propagate campaigns against Muslims and other minority communities, the party’s National Spokesperson KC Tyagi told digital news channel Red Mike on Friday.

The Janata Dal (United) is a key ally in the Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition.

“While we are there [in power with the BJP], no anti-Muslim, anti-minority campaign will be run,” Tyagi said, boasting of his party’s credibility among Muslims.

Responding to a question about whether the Janata Dal (United) would push for a more secular approach to governance after the BJP’s vitriolic Lok Sabha campaign targeting Muslims, Tyagi said, “The issues that were used to rake up muck in the elections should be forgotten.”

Tyagi said that his party’s candidate, Mujahid Alam, was placed second in the Lok Sabha polls from the Muslim-majority Kishanganj constituency in Bihar, ahead of the candidate fielded by the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen.

The Congress party’s Mohammed Jawed won from the constituency. Tyagi said that the Janata Dal (United) believes in “building a consensus all communities and sects” and that, as part of the incoming Union government, it would advocate broader discussions on policies instead of “enforcing them on people”.