Notable number of Congress Muslim candidates won assembly polls | India News
New Delhi: Poll results show that the Congress has won a significant number of Muslim candidates in the assembly elections, with 18 of the party’s 19 MLAs in Assam being Muslims. Kerala’s victorious UDF has 30 Muslim MLAs, of which eight are from the Congress and the rest (22) from its ally IUML. The two winning Congress candidates in Bengal are both Muslims. A Muslim Congress candidate wins in Tamil Nadu, reports Manash Pratim Gohain and Ambika Pandit .The Assam results show that the opposition’s limited gains in the state were concentrated in Muslim-majority areas, with 22 of its winning candidates belonging to the community and most of the winners coming from seats with a high Muslim population.The demographic pattern is clear. Of the 22 constituencies with Muslim MLAs, five have over 90% Muslim population, six over 80% and eight over 60%.In Kerala, 30 of the 35 Muslim MLAs belong to the Congress-UDF. The eight Muslim MLAs of the party are from Nilambur, Ponnani, Kalpetta, Aluva, Aroor, Kochi Chadaimangalam, Bamanpuram. According to the 2011 census some of the constituencies from which the candidates won show that they are Muslim dominated or have a substantial Muslim population.The two constituencies it won in Bengal also have large Muslim populations – Farakka and Raninagar, with 67% and 80%.
