Naofumi
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It's not cherry-picking the faults, it's a big elephant in the room and he is not someone who needs to reminded about what are the needs of his area - he is very articulate and understand this - he himself have pointed out national and other state's Muslim literacy rates being poor then why? Why don't he look at his home too? Doesn't that make him no better than likes of Mulayam or Lalu who used Muslims as merely vote banks?You can either use that attitude and find faults in every Muslim politician and dismiss them summarily.
Or the other alternative is, as a reach out to your elected representatives and push your list of needs across. I say this even for Muslims who live in constituencies with elected BJP members. Unless you engage with them, no matter how much they hate you, you will not get any change, even if it is minimal. You can also shun them, and get no change.
And the wider problem is that there's no effective Muslim leadership which can compete and survive through meritocracy, thus we are forced to look at the few visible faces. Andho me Kana Raja.
And I am not dismissing him entirely due to my belief of 'voting lesser evil' but we should not make him as an idol or perfect politician - that will set very bad precedent for future Muslim leaders.