‘Mewat ruined by BJP’: Congress’s Aftab Ahmed on development, politics, cow vigilantism

Aftab Ahmed, Congress’s Nuh MLA, is set to contest the assembly polls again in a tough triangular fight against the BJP’s Sanjay Singh, the incumbent MLA from Sohna, and INLD’s Zakir Hussain. The deputy leader of the state assembly and former state transport minister has accused the BJP of halting the projects started by the Congress government. 

In this interview with Newslaundry, Ahmed spoke about Nuh’s backwardness, 10 years of the BJP government, and cow vigilantism. 

Locals in Nuh – which has been identified as both economically and educationally backward – have been demanding improved infrastructure and the setting up of a university. The region has also been witnessing increased violence over cow vigilantism. It also witnessed communal riots in July last year. 

While the BJP has been governing the state for the past decade, it has not been able to win the Nuh constituency. INLD’s Hussain, who had contested on the BJP’s ticket in the 2019 assembly polls, had lost by a narrow margin of 4,000 votes.      

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