06-26-2008, 11:31 PM
The best bet for BJP is to split the muslim vote. That is stop it from becoming a consolidated vote against BJP.
But there shouldn't be any delusions that muslim vote will come to BJP.
So BJP doesn't need to welcome such endorsements. It just needs to make sure that muslim vote doesn't consolidate into a single anti BJP block. If BJP is not overtly anti muslim then it can mange that. If there are triangular contests, and muslim vote splits to support both non-BJP parties, that should be good enough.
But there shouldn't be any delusions that muslim vote will come to BJP.
So BJP doesn't need to welcome such endorsements. It just needs to make sure that muslim vote doesn't consolidate into a single anti BJP block. If BJP is not overtly anti muslim then it can mange that. If there are triangular contests, and muslim vote splits to support both non-BJP parties, that should be good enough.