A Pakistan where people want Modi as PM of India

Over 100 voters of village called "Pakistan" in India ready to vote for BJP to help Modi get elected.


Web Desk April 15, 2014
Over 100 voters of village called "Pakistan" in Bihar's Purnea district ready to vote for BJP to help Modi get elected. PHOTO: AFP/FILE

Over 250 residents, including more than 100 voters, of a village called "Pakistan" in the Inidan state of Bihar are expected to vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on April 24, The Times of India reported on Monday.

"We want Narendra Modi to become PM," said Hira Hembrum, a middle aged villager. Most of the villagers who live in abject poverty and without basic amenities support Hembrum's view, the TOI reported.

Tucked away between the border of Bihar and Bengal, Pakistan is a remote village in Singhiya panchayat, about 30 km from Purnea town, the district headquarters.

Interestingly, there is not a single Muslim family in this Pakistan, which has mostly Santhal tribal households, neither are there any mosques in the village.

Another villager, Haldu Murmu, was quoted in local media as saying that "people in Pakistan are keen to vote for BJP to see Modi as PM," adding that the villagers want to vote Modi to oppose neighbouring Pakistan's attempts to disrupt peace.

How it got its name

Elders in the village said that the village was named soon after India's partition in 1947.

Sikhs and Hindus had named their village Pakistan in the hope that their Muslim friends, who fled during the partition to then-East Pakistan, will return one day.

"Many Muslims who earlier lived here chose to leave for East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), when the country was partitioned. We decided then that the village could be named in their memory," one elderly villager said.

However, the village is now dominated by anti-Pakistan sentiment.

Murmu recalled that after the Mumbai attacks that left 166 people dead in 2008, the villagers had even considered changing the name of their village.

"When Ajmal Kasab was hanged to death two years ago, villagers celebrated by distributing sweets, singing folk songs and dancing," Murmu said.

Pakistani parliamentarians had discovered the Pakistan in India in 2012. They had proclaimed that they were ‘pleasantly surprised’ to see how a majority of Indians supported peace between the neighbours.

COMMENTS (36)

Gul Khan | 10 years ago | Reply

We Pakistanis also want Modi PM of India since once he gets elected, we will get relief from a cancer knowns as "Friendship with India" being spread by Media, and by the name of Aman ki Asha by a paid media group.

SAY NO TO FRIENDSHIP WITH INDIA, Like if you agree.

Jag Nathan | 10 years ago | Reply

@Udaya Bose: Bose, for every Indian who don't like him, there are 10 of us who like him and will get him elected. You can only dam the Volga. You cannot stop it from flowing. Its now only a matter of time before a pro India, pro Hindu PM sits at 10 Janpath. It may not be necessarily. But if its is not Modi, it will his successor. We had enough of you bleeding heart liberals running our country into the ground.

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