MUMBAI: One factor lacking within the build-up to the Lok Sabha polls is statements and appeals by ulema or clerics. If no main Muslim organisation, together with Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband or the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, has instructed group members which celebration or alliance to vote for, group leaders stated it’s as a result of the silence is strategic.
Neither heads of main Muslim outfits nor Syed Ahmed Bukhari, the Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid, has up to now issued appeals advising the group the place it ought to solid its votes within the 2024 elections.

“Muslim organisations and their clerics are not making any vocal appeals. They know any move to give a call for en bloc voting will polarise majority voters. The clerics have chosen silence over loud statements,” stated Naved Hamid, former head of All India Majlis-e- Mushawarat, an umbrella organisation of over 50 Muslim our bodies within the nation.

In the previous, many clerics drew flak from the group for issuing political statements. This time they’re maintaining quiet, not wading into points and leaving it to the group’s discretion. Head of Anjuman-I-Islam Zahir Kazi calls it “political maturity” of the clerics.
Hyderabad-based activist Mazher Hussain noticed that the period of en bloc voting appears clearly over. The group should be tactful, whatever the place taken by Maulvis.