All-India Muslim Personal Law Board has expressed concern over the landslide victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Lok Sabha elections and has appealed to Muslims not to be worried by the political development.

During the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP had swept 73 of the 80 seats in UP but no Muslim was elected from the state. This time as many as six Muslims have been elected to Lok Sabha from Uttar Pradesh.

In a letter circulated on Thursday, AIMPLB general secretary Maulana Mohammad Wali Rehmani said that the coming days would be full of  problems but no one should worry about it. “Muslims should maintain courage, passion and encourage others to meet the situation. Our elders decided to remain in this country with an objective. Earlier too, we faced several critical situations and this time too we will tide over it,” he said.

In UP, Samajwadi Party leader Mohammad Azam Khan has been elected to Lok Sabha from Rampur by defeating BJP’s Jaya Prada while party’s ST Hasan has been elected from Moradabad and Shafiqur Rahman Barq from Sambhal.

Besides, Bahujan Samaj Part’s Haji Faziur Rahman has been elected from Saharanpur, Afzal Ansari from Ghazipur and Danish Ali from Amroha.

The BJP did not field any Muslim candidate this time too, but the SP and BSP gave tickets to Muslim candidates in strategic constituencies having sizeable presence of the minority community. The SP-BSP fielded 10 Muslims candidates in these elections.

The Congress too fielded eight Muslim candidates but they failed to win.