Modi's Muslim outreach at AMU: Driven perhaps by a changing global picture

Modi chose the last full week in 2020 to launch some important outreach to two sets of angry constituents: Muslims and the farmers

It is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first outreach, to India’s alienated Muslim minority, that we are more interested in. First, because, as in 2019, he concluded the year with a pitch to India’s Muslims. Second, because, somewhat serendipitously, he chose December 22 to do so. Remember, last year, he had similarly spoken at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan when the anti-CAA agitation was at its peak. Third, because his tone and political proposition to Muslims again seemed contrary to his party’s politics and actions. And fourth, because it followed a very significant statement by his home minister, and deputy any which way,