Yogi Adityanath govt wooing minority among minority in Uttar Pradesh

YP govt has been trying to earn the goodwill of the Shias, who constitute 15-20% of India's Muslim population

Before the onset of Ramzan, the month of fasting in the Islamic calendar, the Yogi Adityanath government had ordered round-the-clock power supply in the minority-dominated districts of Uttar Pradesh.

The message was carefully aimed at the Muslim community, which accounts for nearly 20 per cent of the UP population and plays a decisive role in 125 of the 403 assembly constituencies, especially in the western region. The directive had come in the run-up to the by-polls to the Muslim-dominated Kairana parliamentary and Noorpur assembly constituencies, where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was up against a united opposition.

The BJP lost both the