“Here As Family Member”: PM Modi’s Outreach To Bohra Muslims

Mumbai: 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a new campus of an educational institute of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslims on Friday in an outreach to one of Mumbai’s most influential communities ahead of the high-stakes municipal elections in the city.

PM Modi was seen walking, holding hands with the head of the community, Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, at the new campus of Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah, the principal educational institute of the Dawoodi Bohra community, at Marol in suburban Andheri.

“I have known four generations of Syedna sahab‘s family. I am here as a family member, not a PM. You have fulfilled a 150-year-old dream by setting up this institute,” he said, praising the members of the community for changing with the times and maintaining their “relevance”.

The institute works to protect the learning traditions and literary culture of the community, and the new centre will impart Arabic learning.