This should be sufficient reason to set alarm bells ringing in the Samajwadi Party.
A meeting of Muslim leaders and activists, held in Aligarh on Wednesday evening, saw the participants denouncing the Akhilesh government for failing to check the communal violence in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh that left over 48 people dead and also declaring that they would no longer support the ruling party..
A meeting of Muslim intellectuals and social and cultural groups organised by the Sir Syed Awareness Forum in Aligarh also criticised the ruling party for not fulfilling its election promises like reservation for Muslims.
Renowned Islamic scholar M. Saud Alam Qasmi said that the Samajwadi Party was playing politics with Muslim sentiments. He announced that Muslims ‘will teach a lesson’ to the Akhilesh Yadav government in the next elections.
Social worker Najam Abbasi accused the Samajwadi Party government of not being adequately worried about the security of Muslims while Mr Shakeel Samdani, president of Sir Syed Awareness Forum and general secretary of United Muslim Organisation, said communal riots were harming the secular fabric of India.
He said that the Muzaffarnagar violence was a part of a larger conspiracy of political forces and ‘the so-called pro-Muslim government of UP’ has miserably failed to contain these riots.
He demanded that the compensation for those killed in the riots should be raised to `25 lakh and for the injured to `5 lakh.
Secretary of the forum Mansoor Ilahi accused the social media of playing a negative role in the riots but the general secretary of Aligarh Zakat Fund, Obaid Iqbal Asim, said the SP will no longer be allowed to fool the Muslim community.