It was after the communal riots that Malik decided to support the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), voting, in 2014 and in 2017, on one issue alone: "the Hindu agenda." In his address in Kairana, last week, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath appealed to all Hindus to vote for the BJP irrespective of caste. His brother, in an exasperated tone, said, "You are not voting for a Muslim, you are voting for Ajit Singh. A contradictionWhile there is no love lost between the Jats and Muslims, there is also a lull in hostilities. But when the village was debating whether to bring back the Muslims, Mallik was against it.

Source: Huffington Post May 28, 2018 04:10 UTC