Another term awaits PM but BJP suffers from anti-Muslim perception: Paswan

Whatever the govt is doing it is doing for everyone; even for the minority community it has done a lot, says Paswan

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party is struggling to change a "perception" that it is against minority Muslims and lower-caste people, a political ally said, which could cost it votes in a general election due next year.
 

Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) trounced the opposition at the last election in 2014, but it has lost a handful of recent by-elections after opposition groups banded together.

Veteran politician Ram Vilas Paswan, a federal minister and the chief of the Lok Jan Shakti (People's Power) Party, which is allied with the BJP and says it represents India's socially backward