30, not 28, Muslims have won this Lok Sabha election

By TwoCircles.net News Desk,

New Delhi: The number of Muslim candidates who have been elected to the new Lok Sabha is now 30. According to the final result of successful Lok Sabha candidates, 30 among 543 members are Muslims.

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In the early reports after the counting of votes, only 28 Muslims were shown winner. While Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Kaisar Jahan, who won Sitapur Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh, was missing in early lists, the name of the newly elected Trinamool Congress candidate Kabir Suman seems to have confused many. Suman, a convert and practicing Muslim, has won Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal. He got 5,40,667 votes and defeated CPM’s Sujan Chakraborty by about 60 thousand votes.

Kabir Suman, a Kolkata-based modern Bengali singer-songwriter, guitarist, poet, journalist, TV presenter and occasional film actor, converted to Islam in 2000. Before being Kabir Suman, he was Suman Chattopadhaya. Jadavpur University graduate in English Literature as the major subject, Kabir Suman is married to Sabina Yasmin. His album of protest songs “Nandigram” in response to atrocities committed on the residents of the village is his latest work.

Against the 14th Lok Sabha which had 39 Muslim Members, this Lok Sabha will have 30. As for the representation of the Muslim community in the Lok Sabha is concerned, this is a far less number given the fact that the community (150 million) counts about 15% of the total population.

Partywise distribution of Muslim MPs in 15th Lok Sabha

Full list of successful Muslim Lok Sabha candidates