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“The reason why BJP won from Dhule-Malegaon constituency, considered
as one of the safest seats for a secular candidate, is that the
Congress candidate Amrishbhai Patel could not get enough Hindu votes
and Janata Dal (S) candidate Nehal Ahmed failed to garner enough
Muslim supports”, said Khan Iftekhar, a teacher in a local college
pointing at the area-wise results. “Congress got good supports in
Muslim pockets and the urban areas of the constituency. But the
adjoining rural areas and Malegaon outer assembly segment with
predominantly Hindu population was almost polarized in saffron
combine’s favour”, he added.
It requires not a deeper look into the constituency to discover the
reason for this polarization.
While Malegaon, the textile town with predominantly Muslim
population, has seen two deadly bomb blasts,
one in 2006 and the
other in 2008, Dhule, the other major town in the constituency saw
the worst ever communal violence on its soil in October 2008 just
before the corporation election with a motive, believed by many in
the region, to win the elections. Though the riots could not affect
the outcome of the corporation election as the people in the main
town refused to play on the divisive politics, the tragic incidents
in Malegaon and Dhule did play a major role in communalizing the
rural and part of the urban areas. "It is no secret that the series
of
communal violence in Malegaon had a political agenda", would say
every three of five people in Malegaon.
Same is the story in Jalgaon, Raver, Beed, Akola, Amrawati,
Aurangabad, Buldana, Prabhani and Jalna parliamentary
constituencies. All these constituencies have witnessed a series of
communal violence and the bomb blasts, allegedly purported by the
Hindu right wing organizations in the recent past. While Akola,
Jalna, Beed, Raver and Jalgaon went to Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP),
Aurangabad, Amrawati, Prabhani and Buldana were comfortably won by
Shiv Sena.
Beed, from where former Maharashtra Dy. Chief Minister and senior
BJP leader Gopinath Munde won by a margin of more than one lakh
votes, is the constituency that witnessed a bomb attack damaging a
mosque in its neighborhood on April 4, barely few days before the
polling. Like Beed, Jalna and Prabhani have also seen the bomb
attacks in the near past. For the April Beed blast,
the police
arrested three Hindu youths on May 13, after the election process in
the whole country was complete and for the other blasts also, it is
alleged that like the Malegaon blasts, they had also been
masterminded by the Hindu right wing organizations to avenge the
terrorist attacks allegedly carried by the Muslim extremist groups.
Similarly the villages in and around Jalgaon and Aurangabad went
through a series of communal violence in the past few years because
a CD containing the controversial and provocative song Mandir
wahi banaige… were reportedly played by the Hindu mob
in Muslim dominated areas. The state government in Maharashtra
eventually banned the controversial CD but not before a major part
of the State in
Marathwada and Khandesh regions witnessed a kind of
Gujarat that along with resulting in losses in human life and
property played an instrumental role in communalising these regions.
“One can hardly deny the roles first the communal riots and now the
terrorist attacks play in driving the voters in favour of the
parties with communal agenda”, said Ab. Karim Salar, former standing
committee chairman in Jalgaon Municipal Corporation with a chain of
Education Institutes to his credit. “Yet it is difficult to
ascertain why the successive governments have failed in taking any
action against the people who resort to the politics of hate”, he
wondered.
Though Salim Khan, a school teacher at a school in nearby Raver, was
not as vocal as Karim Salar, he agreed that the riots do influence
the election results. Of late Raver located barely hundred
kilometers from Jalgaon has also seen the communal violence. While
in Jalgaon A.T. Patil won the election for BJP, Haribhau Jawade did
the same for the party in Raver.
Ironically for the rural Maharashtra miserably lacking in
infrastructural development and availability of the basic amenities,
these are not the issues important enough to discuss even during the
elections.
“There is no question of
discussing the issues we are living with as no candidate has so far
visited our area”, Jitendra Desle, a cable operator in Malegaon had
said before the polling. Yet he decided to vote and support the BJP
because he had said, “Our support is for a Hindu party.”
The results are hence not far from the expected lines and when most
of the urban India voted on development plank and for a stable
government, the rural Maharashtra refused to follow the suite. As
the new government is formed in next few days, it will be
interesting to watch if at all it takes any concrete measures to
combat not only the terrorists but also against those who indulge in
divisive politics. For, the Congress Chief and the Prime Minster on
more than one occasion during the election campaign have reportedly
asserted that terrorists and communal forces both are threatening
the country in equal terms.
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