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Wary minorities prefer to wait and watch Thursday, October 4, 2001
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
HMEDABAD: Badly treated in the Keshubhai Patel regime, minorities in the state are playing safe and refraining from saying anything about the man who will tomorrow be Gujarat's chief minister, knowing his temper, strong biases and, of course, his RSS roots.
But as reality dawns, Modi emerges as a 'dangerous man' for them. They are already feeling less secure, and ask in disbelief, "Is it confirmed? Narendra Modi is CM?"
Ahmedabad youth president of the Bahujan Samaj Party Mohammad Irfan Shaikh says, "Compared to Keshubhai, Modi will prove a bigger danger for Muslims."
"At least Keshubhai's strings were in someone else's hand but Narendra Modi is his own master," he adds.
The infamous vitriolic tongue too has also not gone notice. "He will have to be more careful about what he says," says JV Momin. "As organisational chief, he could afford irresponsible utterances, but now in such a responsible position, he should be guarded," he suggests.
Badruddin Shaikh has not directly dealt with Modi, but has heard of his being a hard-liner. "He will have to change his attitude if he wants peace in the state," he says.
"By changing a man you cannot change a party's ideology," observes United Christian Forum's Samson Christian, who has spear-headed the Christian agitation against sporadic attacks on the community in Gujarat.
According to him, even when Keshubhai was directly involved in their crisis, he failed to deliver. "It is too premature to judge and we will only wait and watch," he says.
"Mohra badalne se ravaiyya to nahin badalta," (By changing the pawn you cannot change the attitude), remarks Gujarat zone president of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Mohammad Shafi Madni. Madni feels that not just the minorities but "the entire public had been harassed by the BJP and they don't stand a very good chance in Gujarat".
While many dismiss the change as the party's internal matter, there are views that suggest that Modi will first have to win the confidence of his own men and then move on to minorities and the rest. "Things are different when you rule a state, you have to keep in mind the economical and the law and order situation," says Momin.
Modi or Keshubhai, experience has told the minorities that the BJP is anti-minorities. We just want our rights and justice, just don't violate them", is the fervent plea.News Source : The Times of India [India's best Newspaper]
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