A day before the first phase Assembly election begins in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, Imam of Tipu Sultan Mosque Syed Mohammad Nurur Rahman Barkati on Friday appealed to the people to support the SP-Congress alliance, accusing the BJP and the RSS of trying to win the election through their “dirty politics”.
“Election in Uttar Pradesh is very important and I appeal to all my Muslim and secular Hindu brothers and sisters in UP not to cast a single vote to the BJP,” Barkati told reporters here at the Tipu Sultan mosque.