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Last Muslim lawmaker leaves India's ruling party

Delhi (CNN)The last remaining Muslim legislator in India's ruling Baratya Janata has resigned and is a minority There are no representatives from the community. Among 395 parliamentarians.

Minority Minister Muktar Abbas Nakvi resigned on Wednesday, one day before his term was due to end. The Indian Parliament has a total of nearly 800 members.

"My work at Rajya Sabha is over, but my political and social work is never over," Naqvisaid on Thursdaylocal news. Details of why he didn't ask for reelection, told without offering to channel NDTV.

Naqvi's resignation occurs during periods of instability for the Hindu and Muslim communities in India. Religious tensions have increased in recent weeks following comments by Nupur Sharma, a BJP spokesperson who is currently suspended, about the Prophet Mohammed, who has been widely accused of being an Islamic hater.

Then there was a violent clash between Hindus and Muslims, accounting for about 80% and 14% of the country's 1.3 billion population.
Last week, tensions arose following the brutal killing of a Hindu tailor, allegedly by two Muslim men.

India has about 200 million Muslims and has the third largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia and Pakistan.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP came to power in 2014 and promised economic reform and development, but critics said his rise was the secular political foundation of the country. I was afraid that it could indicate a shift in ideology from to Hindu political foundations. state.

BJP has its roots in Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a right-wing Hindu group that counts modi among its members, and is a Hindu ideology that seeks to define Indian culture according to Hindu values. Complies with.

Since then, the ruling party has been repeatedly criticized by anti-Muslim sentimental rights groups, activists, and opposition parties.

Over the last eight years, several states run by BJP have imposed new legislation that critics are rooted in Hindu Tova's ideology. At the same time, reports of violence and hatred speeches against Muslims have become a hot topic nationwide.

Some of the most controversial new laws are in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, governed by Yogi Adityanath, who turned from a Hindu monk to a politician. The state has introduced legislation to protect cattle, an animal considered sacred to Hindus, from slaughter, making cattle transportation increasingly difficult. It also introduced a conversion prevention bill that makes it difficult for pagan couples to marry and for people to convert to Islam or Christianity.

Earlier this year, BJP-controlled southern Karnataka banned Muslim girls from wearing religious head scarves in their classrooms and challenged the state's Supreme Court decision. I urged you to.

Last month, Indiascrambled to contain thediplomatic fallout as at least 15 Muslim-dominated nations condemned Sharma's remarks about the Prophet Mohammed. Called. The incident caused turmoil among India's major Arab trading partners and called for boycotting Indian goods from around the Gulf.

In response, BJP said on its website that the party respects all religions.

"BJP strongly condemns the insults of all religious personalities of all religions."