Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Why should they fear PM Modi? Abdul Salam, BJP's only Muslim candidate

M Abdul Salam is the only Muslim face among over 400 candidates fielded by the (BJP) for the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2024. The former vice-chancellor of Calicut University is contesting the elections from Kerala’s Muslim-dominated seat. 

In a series of interviews after his candidature was announced in the first nomination list of the party on, Salam, who is also BJP’s minority morcha national vice-president, has said that the perception of Prime Minister among Muslims has changed over the years and the community has no reason to fear him. 

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“The Muslim perception of is slowly changing. Has Prime Minister Modi hurt any Muslim in the last decade? Why should the community fear PM Modi?," Salam said in an interview with the . 

Salam said he has met several Muslim mothers who supported PM Modi for abolishing , the instant divorce practice within the community. 

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Salam, 71, an agronomist with over 70 published international research papers, said that he felt honoured to be BJP’s lone Muslim face in the seven candidate lists released so far. Salam said that of the country should join the BJP and be part of the party’s mission to make India a world power.

“As an educated Muslim, I found it my duty to join Modi in this mission to make India a world power. Muslim leaders must not be puppets at the hands of those elements that are jealous of India’s growth," Salam said in another .  

Salam also accused the Congress and the CPI(M) of falsely projecting the Citizenship Amendment Rules as discriminatory towards Muslims only to win community’s votes. 

“CAA is meant to do justice to the minority people who were affected by Partition. Muslims are not among the persecuted minorities in Pakistan and