India, April 21 -- In the wake of unrest in West Bengal over the recent amendments to the Waqf Act, the Maharashtra unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has launched a targeted outreach programme to engage with Pasmanda Muslims - a socially and economically marginalised section of the Muslim community.

Union Minister for Minority Affairs Kiran Rijiju will lead a strategy workshop in Mumbai on Tuesday, aimed at sensitising the party's state leadership and office-bearers about the campaign. The workshop will be attended by MPs, MLAs, district and taluka-level party presidents, and general secretaries.

Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, state BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule, BJP's national joint general secretary Shiv Prakash and...