Lucknow/Varanasi: Troubles seem to be increasing manifold for Varanasi candidate Arvind as Quami Ekta Dal leader and jailed don Mukhtar Ansari's elder brother Afzal Ansari has extended his support to , saying the Muslims would remain safe under the prime ministerial candidate in the country, a media report said.

As per a report published in Mail Today, while talking to the mediapersons at the Babatpur airport here on Saturday, Afzal said, "The country needs Modi. The Muslims will be safe when he becomes the Prime Minister. This is the reason that the Muslims of Varanasi are toying with the idea to vote for him."

"Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had asked Modi to follow 'Raaj Dharma' which the Gujarat CM followed after the 2002 riots in his state. But SP chief couldn't teach ' Raaj Dharma' to his son and Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav. This is why we suffered the country's worst riots in Muzaffarnagar," the English daily quoted Afzal as saying.

Terming Mulayam Singh Yadav "dangerous for Muslims", the former Samajwadi Party MP said that the SP supremo's sole target was to misuse the community for personal gains.

"The Muslims of eastern UP in general and Varanasi, in particular, will teach the SP a lesson this election," asserted the Quami Ekta Dal leader.

The report stated that Afzal had claimed "Out of 27 Lok Sabha seats on both sides of the Ghaghra river in eastern UP, the BJP would win 24 seats."

Earlier, there were speculations that Ansari would extend his support to .

Notbly, Afzal had asked all the anti-BJP parties to field a common candidate against Modi on the Varanasi seat. He suggested that all the parties should come forward to defeat Modi in the holy city.

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