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India won’t have been partitioned had Jinnah been made first PM: Rajbhar

India won’t have been partitioned had Jinnah been made first PM: Rajbhar
VARANASI: Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief Om Prakash Rajbhar on Wednesday said that “there would have been no partition had Mohammad Ali Jinnah been made the first prime minister of India”, adding to the controversy sparked by his senior alliance partner Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav.
Rajbhar made the assertion days after Yadav put Jinnah in the same league as Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, triggering criticism from several quarters, including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
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Regarding his recent meeting with the jailed mafia don and MLA Mukhtar Ansari in Banda jail, Rajbhar said “how could Mukhtar be termed a criminal until he is convicted?”
Talking to reporters here on Wednesday, Rajbhar strongly defended Yadav on his recent statement on Jinnah.
“Top BJP leaders like Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani had praised Jinnah on many occasions, hence the BJP leaders should first read their own history. The partition of the country could have been avoided by making Jinnah the first PM of the country,” he said while referring to the purported statements of BJP leaders.
Rajbhar, however, displayed annoyance after being repeatedly questioned on Jinnah. “Why are you not raising inflation and other issues of public interest,” he asked the reporters.

On being targeted by BJP’s Rajbhar face and UP minister Anil Rajbhar for meeting Mukhtar in Banda jail, the SBSP chief said, “How he (Anil Rajbhar) can term a person a criminal without being convicted in any case by the court. I had met Mukhtar in jail as per the provisions prescribed by the government for meeting any prisoner. I have had relations with Mukhtar for the past 18 years. Why did the BJP not question my meetings with him when I was in government as its alliance partner?”
Rajbhar termed the BJP “opportunist”. “If the BJP would need the support of two public representatives to save its government, it would fall at the feet of Mukhtar.”
He also targeted Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati. “When she needed Mukhtar’s support, he was termed as a messiah of the poor. But, after exploiting his popularity she forgot him. Similarly, the BJP people also go to Mukhtar to seek his blessings,” claimed Rajbhar while terming the UP minister a “novice”.
Rajbhar said that he would be holding a meeting of his Bhagidari Morcha leaders for conducting a mahapanchayat of Dalit, OBC and deprived sections at Jagatpur in the coming days.
Yadav had made the remark apparently equating Pakistan founder Jinnah with Gandhi and Nehru while lavishing praise on Patel on his 146th birth anniversary on October 31, raising many eyebrows.
“Sardar Patel understood the ground and he made decisions accordingly. Hence, he is also known as Iron Man,” Yadav had said at a public meeting in Hardoi.
“Sardar Patel, Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and (Muhammad Ali) Jinnah studied in the same institute and became barristers. They helped (India) get freedom and never backed away from any struggle,” he had said.
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