20% Muslims voted for BJP in 2019 general elections, says Pew survey

Nearly three quarters of Indians, who feel religion is very important in their lives (74%), say having Indian ancestry is very important to being truly Indian

One out of five Muslims in India voted for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2019 general elections. This works out to about 19 per cent, a new survey conducted by the Pew Research Centre on religion, caste, nationalism and attitudes in India has found. Nearly half of the Hindu voters (49 per cent) say they voted for the BJP, compared with significantly fewer people among minority religious groups.

The survey indicates that the Congress – one of the main opposition parties to the BJP – was the top choice among Muslims (30 per cent), Christians (30 per cent) and