dial m for mamata delegates took home the message that they have to set aside their grouse against the congress says abrahani this is despite the fact that the party failed to protect or ensure justice for them after one of the nations worst pogroms in 1983 activists claim that apart from medha patkar in mumbai north east no other aap candidate in maharashtra has got a sizeable number of community votes sunday times puts its ear to the ground in six states where muslims play a key role in deciding the outcome to get some answers they hate him he says are issues like economic growth important or is fear the big factor in bhavnagar vhps pravin togadia asked hindu locals to forcibly occupy a muslim house i preferred to sacrifice myself to check the division iman says the aap factor delhis muslims on the other hand have seen potential in aap will clerics swing the votes in 2011 the all india united democratic front aiudf led by businessmanturnedpolitician badruddin ajmal wrested 18 assembly seats from congress in assams muslim constituencies in parts of bengal with a 15 to 35 muslim population the vote is split between trinamool congress congress and cpm in the 2009 elections in aurangabad where muslims constitute 35 of 14 lakh voters a bsp muslim candidate took away 32000 votes helping shiv senas chandrakant khaire win divided we fall in 2009 ncp candidate tariq anwar had lost from muslim populated katihar bihar despite having 255 lakh votes it left the party redfaced but sent a strong signal to the community muslims here have seen through her symbolic gestures like wearing a stole hijab mohammed nurul islam from alisinga one of the 14 muslim villages where riots occurred claims the village votes as one with three other muslim candidates together bagging over one lakh votes a bjp candidate took the seat its evident from west bengal or the growing discontent in up see right that the community isnt a a monolithic mass in all muslimmajority pockets in the state the community voted singlemindedly to stop the modi wave says maulana mahmood daryabadi of all india ulema council one of several socioreligious groups that helped decide how the community votes muslims across most parts of india are setting personal feelings aside to poll collectively for the communitys greater good but west bengal has never voted en bloc many of these muslims feel more secure with congress than bjp which has made bangladeshi influx a rallying point in electoral campaigns do muslims vote en bloc the area which had an 80 voter turnout in 2009 and has always voted congress understands neither aap nor congress gain from a split vote but a spate of vitriolic speeches seems to have changed the game the aam aadmi party candidate also made a plea to community members look at your own house this time reporting by mohammed wajihuddin in mumbai jaideep mazumdar in kolkata faizan ahmad in patna