Earlier this week, when he was on a trip in Mussoorie as he took a break after actively working for his occasion, the BJP, within the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls for months, 33-year-old Danish Azad Ansari had no clue that after returning to Lucknow he might be taking oath Friday as a minister of state (MoS) within the new Yogi Adityanath-led occasion authorities.
Ansari is the lone Muslim face within the Adityanath authorities 2.0, changing Mohsin Raza, who was the one Muslim minister within the earlier authorities.
Danish is the overall secretary of the UP BJP’s minority wing. In the earlier Adityanath authorities he had been a member of the Urdu Language Committee since 2018.
Sources mentioned the occasion dropped Raza from the ministry this time due to complaints in opposition to him.
Currently, Ansari just isn’t a member of the UP Assembly or Legislative Council. The BJP is predicted to appoint him for the Legislative Council membership.
Ansari accomplished his post-graduation in Quality Management in addition to Public Administration from Lucknow University, the place, in 2011, he had joined scholar politics as a member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the RSS’ college students wing. He held numerous organizational posts within the ABVP in its Lucknow mahanagar unit until 2018, following which he shifted to the BJP.
When requested about his induction into the Adityanath ministry, Ansari informed The Sunday Express, “Yogi ji and Modi ji (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) have given me the duty of a minister. I’ve to work for the empowerment and welfare of youths and all different sections of society.”
A big level in his choice as a minister is that Ansari belongs to the Muslim group’s Sunni sect that’s usually perceived to be politically against the BJP.
Raza belongs to Muslims’ Shia sect that’s believed to be comparatively extra favorable in direction of the BJP. The BJP, as an illustration, is alleged to get Shia Muslim votes in Lucknow.
“Ansari is an OBC Muslim. By inducting him into the (new) ministry, the occasion has tried to succeed in out to OBC Muslims voters,” mentioned a BJP chief.
On his half, Ansari mentioned, “That opinion (of Sunni Muslims) has changed. Yogi government has effectively done works for all the sections of Muslim community. Schemes for ration, houses, Ayushman card have benefited all sections. Muslims too have understood that and hence they love BJP, Yogi and Modi.”
Ansari claimed that round 10 per cent of the Muslim inhabitants had voted for the BJP within the latest UP Assembly polls. He had campaigned amongst Muslims in numerous districts of jap UP, central UP and the Bundelkhand area.
Asked whether or not he confronted challenges on the bottom whereas canvassing for the saffron occasion, Ansari mentioned, “Common Muslims don’t oppose me. Those who’re related to every other occasion and have a mindset of SP and BSP, solely they oppose me. Common Muslims just like the work of the BJP.”
Ansari hails from Ballia, the place his father is a weaver, who runs a saree store, and his mom is a college principal.
Dayashankar Singh, who additionally took oath as an MoS (impartial cost), was Ansari’s senior in Lucknow University, and the latter campaigned for him in his Ballia Nagar seat.
When Ansari was sworn in as a minister, PM Modi and CM Adityanath had been current on the stage, and it was not the primary time that he met them. He had met each the leaders earlier as a celebration employee deployed of their capabilities for making preparations on the dais like putting chairs and placing up tents.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
