Najma Heptullah claims ‘development for all’ helping Muslims in party

Union minister Najma Heptulla claims that confidence of Muslims in BJP is increasing because of its ‘development-for-all’ agenda, as she expressed optimism that ‘vote-bank politics’ syndrome will now be a thing of the past.

‘Muslims have voted for the BJP (in recent Lok Sabha elections) and they are slowly getting their confidence in voting for the BJP because it’s for the first time in the history of India that any leader has focused on development in a national election and talked about inclusive development, both for majority and minority in the entire nation and Muslims are included in it,’ she said.

‘He (prime minister Narendra Modi) talked about everybody. And when he talked about development, minorities, specifically Muslims, have voted for him. (Muslims) may not have voted 100 per cent but they have voted and slowly the growth (in voting for BJP) will increase as the confidence increases,’ the Minister of Minority Affairs told PTI here in an interview.

Irrespective of caste, religion, region and language considerations, people have voted for Modi, the former deputy chairperson of Rajya Sabha said.