In his address to elected MPs of the National Democratic Alliance, Prime Minister Modi took his party’s ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ and added ‘Sabka Vishwas’ to it. He said that in the second term, his party leaders must ensure that they win the trust of minority communities by not just ‘appeasing’ them but working relentlessly towards their social inclusion.
In light of this statement, The Wire‘s senior editor Arfa Khanum Sherwani questions Muslim representation within the NDA, which fell from six MPs in 2014 to zero in 2019.