Tickets for Muslims depends on winnability says BJP's Yedduyrapa

The BJP's resounding victory in Uttar Pradesh without fielding a single candidate from the Muslim community seems to have caught the Karnataka unit's eyes.

Muslim candidates are unlikely to find any place in the Bharatiya Janata Party's list for the upcoming assembly polls in 2018. State president B S Yeddyurappa on Friday told the media that the party does not have the confidence of winning seats by fielding candidates from the minority community. The BJP's resounding victory in Uttar Pradesh without fielding a single candidate from the Muslim community seems to have caught the Karnataka unit's eyes.

"Whether in Uttar Pradesh or Karnataka, we do not have the confidence of fielding a candidate from the minority community and winning the seat," Yeddyurappa told media persons. While he had rebelled against the BJP and contested the 2013 assembly elections under Karnataka Janata Paksha, the BJP had no Muslim candidates too.

Yeddyurappa added that the BJP did not believe in politics of minority appeasement and would contest with development as agenda. While it is too early to state if the party may change its stand closer to the polls, the state president's statement surely comes as disappointment for aspiring candidates of the party from the minority community.

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