By TCN News,
Washington DC: Association of Indian Muslims of America (AIMA), a non-profit NGO of Indian Muslims who live in US, has come out in open support of the AAM Aadmi Party.
“We enthusiastically share the views of AAP volunteers, and ask India's Muslim citizens and voters to support AAP with funds, volunteers and votes, as AAP prepares to participate in the upcoming parliamentary election,” Kaleem Kawaja, Executive Director of Association of Indian Muslims of America, said in a press statement.
“Several of our members in US who hold Indian passports are planning to visit India at election time to campaign for AAP and to raise funds for them in India,” AIMA added.
Even before the remarkable victory of AAP in the recent Delhi state elections, a significant number of middle class and educated Muslims in Delhi had enthusiastically responded to the call of this nascent party, to help it cleanse the political system and governance.
Recently Jamat Islami Hind had also expressed willingness to extend support to AAP.
“We are very optimistic that AAP will win a significant number of seats in the parliamentary election and thus force the other parties to change their tactics of using religion, caste, money-politics and vote-bank politics that are seriously harming the Indian nation. We are hopeful that in due course of time this positive change in India's polity will be of much help to the Muslims of India,” AIMA said.
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