GANDHINAGAR: Muslim members of BJP from Gujarat would make an attempt to allay the apprehensions of minorities of Bihar about the saffron party and try to prevent an anti-BJP polarisation in a state where Muslims constitute form a crucial vote bank for the Nitish-Lalu combine. With the crucial Bihar assembly elections just months away, the members of the minority cell in Gujarat are gearing up to visit the state for campaigning.This cell does not, as a mater of routine, tour poll-bound states. But it tries to make strategic interventions in important constituencies that have sizeable Muslim population as in Varanasi during the last Lok Sabha polls, where the cell tries to hard-sell the Gujarat model of development. Members of the minority cell from all the districts will travel to Bihar to tell Muslims of the state about the situation in Gujarat,” said Mehboob Ali Chisti , the convenor of BJP minority cell.Speaking to ET, Chisti said that around 70 to 80 members from the state will campaign for the party. “We have more than 2.5 lakh Muslim Members in Gujarat BJP, which is a highest in the country and around 250 Muslim councillors in civic bodies,” he said adding that as opposed to the dismal state of Muslims across the country portrayed in the report of the Sachar Committee, in Gujarat 9% of Muslims are employed with the state government while the literacy rate is more than 70%.Like other cells and party workers, minority cell members from BJP Gujarat had extensively campaigned for the party ahead of Lok Sabha elections in 2014. “We had campaigned in various parts of the country, particularly in UP, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Maharashtra apart from Varanasi itself,” Chisti pointed out.The minority outreach would assume crucial significance in Bihar as the Muslims form a critical block with around 16.5% of population. Severely segregated along caste and communal lines, both senior leaders of BJP and Sangh admit off the record that the electioneering in the state have to be strategized accordingly.While no official marching order has come so far, Chisti pointed out that the essential line of campaigning is about the better quality of life that Muslims enjoy in Gujarat when compared to other states.