Minorities Council
Syeda Manzil, Muzammil Compound 4/ 1703, Dodhpur, Aligarh 202001
Tel: 0571-2709629, Mob. 9411415100 E-mail: iqbalansari35@gmail.com
While welcoming the Indian people’s decisive verdict against the BJP led NDA, we would like the fellow citizens to note that only 28 Muslims have been elected to the 15th Lok Sabha, whereas according to their share in population they could have expected 72 MPs. The average percentage of representation for the earlier fourteen Lok Sabhas having been about 53 per cent of the expected share, the present percentage representation of Muslims is the lowest ever, even lower than that in 1991 & 1996 when the country was under the cloud of Ayodhya movement.
Having come in the wake of Sachar Committee’s report, which has pointed out underrepresentation of Muslims in legislatures and other decision making bodies as one of the sources of their deprivation and backwardness, there is a need to rethink the working of the electoral and party system in the country, which on the one hand causes vote-seat disproportionality for political parties, on the other hand persistently denies the largest religious minority its due share in legislatures.
Enclosed is the period wise under-representation of Muslims.
18.05.09 Iqbal A. Ansari
Secretary-General
Minorities Council
Syeda Manzil, 4/1703, Muzammil Compound, Dodhpur Aligarh – 202002
Mob. 09411415100, Tel. 0571-2709629, Email: iqbalansari35@gmail.com
List of Muslim MPs of the 15th Lok Sabha, 2009
State Constituency Candidate Party
Andhra Pradesh Hyderabad Asaduddin Owaisi AIMIM
Assam Dhubri Badruddin Ajmal AUDF
Assam Barpeta Ismail Hussain INC
Bihar Kishanganj Mohammad Asrarul Haque INC
Bihar Begusarai Dr. Monazir Hassan JD (U)
Bihar Bhagalpur Syed Shahnawaz Hussain BJP
Goa nil nil nil
Gujarat nil nil nil
Haryana nil nil nil
Himachal Pradesh nil nil nil
Jammu & Kashmir Baramulla Sharief Ud Din Shariq JKNC
Jammu & Kashmir Srinagar Farooq Abdullah JKNC
Jammu & Kashmir Anantnag Mirza Mehboob Beg JKNC
Jammu & Kashmir Ladakh Hassan Khan IND
Karnataka nil nil nil
Kerala Malappuram E. Ahamed MLKSC
Kerala Ponnani E.T. Muhammed Basheer MLKSC
Madhya Pradesh nil nil nil
Maharashtra nil nil nil
Manipur nil nil nil
Meghalaya nil nil nil
Mizoram nil nil nil
Nagaland nil nil nil
Orissa nil nil nil
Punjab nil nil nil
Rajasthan nil nil nil
Sikkim nil nil nil
Tamil Nadu Vellore Abdulrahman DMK
Tamil Nadu Theni Haron Rashid J. M INC
Tripura nil nil nil
Uttar Pradesh Kai rana Tabassum Begum BSP
Uttar Pradesh Muzaffarnagar Kadir Rana BSP
Uttar Pradesh Moradabad Mohammed Azharuddin INC
Uttar Pradesh Sambhal Dr. Shafiqur Rahman Barq BSP
Uttar Pradesh Kheri Zafar Ali Naqvi INC
Uttar Pradesh Sitapur Kaisar Jahan BSP
Uttar Pradesh Farrukhabad Salman Khursheed INC
West Bengal Maldaha Uttar Masom Noor INC
West Bengal Maldaha Dakshin Abu Hasem Khan INC
West Bengal Murshidabad Abdul Manan Hossain INC
West Bengal Basirhat Sk. Nurul Islam AITC
West Bengal Uluberia Sultan Ahmed AITC
Chattisgarh nil nil nil
Jharkhand nil nil nil
Uttarakhand nil nil nil
Andaman & Nicobar nil nil nil
Chandigarh nil nil nil
Dadra & Nagar Haveli nil nil nil
Daman & Diu nil nil nil
Nct of Delhi nil nil nil
Lakshadweeb Lakshadweep Muhammed Hamdulla
Sayeed A.B
Puducherry nil nil nil
Total Muslims Elected: 28
Share of Muslims in India ’s Population: 13.4 %
Expected No. of Seats for Muslims: 72
Deprivation: 61.64%
Average Muslims Representational Deprivation: 1952-2004 47.12%
Abbreviations:
AIMIM – All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen
AUDF – Assam United Democratic Front
INC – Indian National Congress
JD (U) – Janata Dal (United)
BJP – Bharatiya Janata Party
JKNC – Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
IND – Independent
MLKSC – Mulslim League Kerala State Committee
DMK – Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
BSP – Bahujan Samaj Party
AITC – All India Trinamool Congress
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