PRESS STATEMENT OF BJP NATIONAL VICE-PRESIDENT
SHRI MUKHTAR ABBAS NAQVI
New Delhi 1 September 2013- BJP Vice President Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today dubbed the Congress party as “traditional and professional political exploiter’’ of Muslims and minorities. The Congress and some so-called secular parties have already started pitching in to “garner Muslim votes” in the wake of Parliament Elections.
While addressing the BJP Minority Morcha National Executive meeting at BJP Headquarter, Mr. Naqvi said that Muslims are well aware of the fact that the same Congress is responsible for backwardness, un-employment, poor-economic and social conditions of the community. Unfortunately, in spite of the fact, that congress manage to capture power on basis of massive Muslim support. BJP should ensure that Muslims don’t get alienated and Congress should not succeed in political exploitation in the name of secularism or communalism.
Pointing out that proportion of Muslims in the Government jobs came down by 62 percent during the last decade in Central government, Naqvi said that it went up in the BJP ruled States like Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Chhattisgarh by 37, 39 and 24 percent respectively during the same period.
Mr. Naqvi said, “Thanks to these merchants of secularism, more then sixty percent of the Muslim population in the country today live below the poverty line and are forced to live with an earning of less than Rs 500 per month. They have been pushed to the lowest standards in terms of education and prosperity by these peddlers of vote bank politics.
Mr. Naqvi said the Muslims have been thrown far away from the developmental mainstream during the last nine and a half years of UPA rule and the previous 45 years of Congress regime. Their votes have been extorted by creating a fear psychosis and spectre about BJP or communalism.
Mr. Naqvi said that the truth is that the Congress has systematically removed from history the names of Muslims who have sacrificed their lives for the nation and kissed the hangman’s noose happily. How many people in this country are aware of the sacrifices made by thousands of Muslims for the country’s freedom including Begum Hazrat Mahal, Maulana Sindhi, Hakim Ajmal, Hasrat Maohani, Syed Mahmud, Tyabji, Umar Sumani, Asghari Begum, Bai Amma, Ashfaqullah etc. Congress only eulogises the Nehru Gandhi family while the names of thousands of others have been deliberately erased from the annals of history.
Instead of identifying the Muslim community with such national heroes, attempts all along have been to label them as terrorists. They have embossed the stamps of ‘Made in Al Qaeda’ on the Muslim beard and cap and still claim to be the guardians of secularism. This is akin to what they used to do with our Sikh brethren during the 80s,” Naqvi said.
Mr. Naqvi said BJP wants to win the confidence of each and every community. It wants the community to come out of the “jaws of the merchants of Muslim vote” and decide its choices purely on merits. BJP is a reality in Indian politics and it would have to be seen and understood from anyone else’s prism but one’s own perspective. We can assure that BJP is a guarantee for the safety and development of minorities in the country”, he said.
He announced that the party would soon come out with a vision document on minority empowerment which would elaborate the party’s stand on the education, security and prosperity of the minorities as also their participation in governance. The document aimed at “empowerment and not appeasement.” Our particular focus is on the socio-economic and political empowerment. If we come to power at the Centre, we will bring out an action taken report detailing the promises made to minorities of the country. I know “it’s not that one vision document will change the outlook of the Muslims towards the BJP but we have to make an honest effort from our side said Naqvi.
(Arun Jain)
(Office Secretary)
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