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Is Every Khan A Muslim? BJP MP Saumitra Khan Has Won from Scheduled Caste Reserved Constituency

26 May 2019 01:05 PM, IST


Is Every Khan A Muslim? BJP MP Saumitra Khan Has Won from Scheduled Caste Reserved Constituency
Saumitra Khan (Photo from his twitter handle)

India Tomorrow

New Delhi, May 26— News agency IANS flashed a story Sunday morning with this headline “Saumitra Khan lone Muslim face of BJP, community number goes up to 27.” Is Saumitra Khan a Muslim? To verify the claim, IndiaTomorrow.net analyzed the election affidavits of this BJP candidate from West Bengal and other election websites and found the following facts which were ignored in the story.

 

-- In the election affidavit, Saumitra Khan has declared that he is a “member of Scheduled Caste “Sunri” (excluding Saha) which is a scheduled caste of the state of West Bengal.”

 

-- Saumitra Khan was elected from Bishnupr (SC) Lok Sabha constituency which is reserved for Scheduled Castes.

 

-- Saumitra Khan carries his surname from his father Dhananjoy Khan and mother Chhaya Rani Khan. Saumitra Khan’s wife is Sujata Mondal

 

It is also said that his name is prounced as 'Soumitra Kha' but spelt in English as Saumitra Khan.

 

A glance at the list of candidates in Bishnupur (SC) constituency reveals that there were some other candidates with 'Khan' surname as most possibly they all were from the same SC caste of Soumitra Khan. Soumitra Khan was pitted against Narayan Chandra Khan of Congress, Sunil Khan of CPI-M besides Sanjit Khan, an Independent. TMC had fielded Shyamal Santra.

 

Saumitra Khan had won the same seat in 2014 on TMC ticket. He switched over to BJP in January this year and was fieled by the saffron party in the current Lok Sabha polls.

 

 

It is a fact Muslims are not included in Scheduled Castes, so no Muslim is allowed to contest from Assembly or Lok Sabha constituencies reserved for Scheduled Castes.

 

In the current Lok Sabha elections, 27 Muslim candidates have got elected, including six each from West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh while Kerala and Jammu and Kashmir have sent three each. Two each have come from Bihar and Assam while one each from Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Lakshadweep, Telangana and Maharashtra.

 

 

27 Muslim Winners in Lok Sabha Elections 2019

 

Constituency

Candidate

Party

Margin

 

Assam

 

 

 

1

Barpeta

Abdul Khaleque

Congress

140307 Votes

2

Dhubri

Badruddin Ajmal

AIUDF

226258 Votes

 

Bihar

 

 

 

3

Khagaria

Choudhary Mahbub Ali Kaisar

LJP

248570 Votes

4

Kishanganj

Dr Mohammad Jawed

Congress

248570 Votes

 

Jammu and Kashmir

 

 

 

5

Anantnag

Hasnain Masoodi

National Conference

6676 Votes

6

Baramulla

Mohammad Akbar Lone

National Conference

30233 Votes

7

Srinagar

Farooq Abdullah

National Conference

70050 Votes

 

Kerala

 

 

 

8

Alappuzha

A M Ariff

CPI-M

10474 Votes

9

Malappuram

P.K. Kunhalikutty

IUML

260153 Votes

10

Ponnani

E T Mohammed Basheer

IUML

193273 Votes

 

Lakshadweep

 

 

 

11

Lakshadweep

Mohammed Faizal PP

NCP

823 Votes

 

Maharashtra

 

 

 

12

Aurangabad

Imtiaz Jaleel Syed

AIMIM

4492 Votes

 

Punjab

 

 

 

13

Faridkot

Mohammad Sadique

Congress

83256 Votes

 

Tamil Nadu

 

 

 

14

Ramanathapuram

K Nawaz Kani

IUML

127122 Votes

 

Telangana

 

 

 

15

Hyderabad

Asaduddin Owaisi

AIMIM

282186 Votes

 

Uttar Pradesh

 

 

 

16

Amroha

Kunwar Danish Ali

BSP

63248 Votes

17

Ghazipur

Afzal Ansari

BSP

119392 Votes

18

Moradabad

Dr. S T Hasan

SP

97878 Votes

19

Rampur

Azam Khan

SP

109997 Votes

20

Saharanpur

Haji Fazlur Rahman

BSP

22417 Votes

21

Sambhal

Dr. Shafiqur Rehman Barq

SP

174826 Votes

 

West Bengal

 

 

 

22

Arambagh

Aparupa Poddar (Afrin Ali)

TMC

1142 Votes

23

Basirhat

Nusrat Jahan

TMC

350369 Votes

24

Jangipur

Khalilur Rahman

TMC

245782 Votes

25

Maldaha Dakshin

Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury (Dalu)

Congress

8222 Votes

26

Murshidabad

Abu Taher Khan

TMC

226417 Votes

27

Uluberia

Sajda Ahmed

TMC

215359 Votes

 

 

In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, only 23 Muslims had got elected.

 







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