State Congress has alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government of Madhya Pradesh has failed to address the issues of minorities in the State. The party’s State minority department chairman Mohammed Saleem alleged that the BJP Government has a discriminatory attitude towards minority community.
Saleem accused the State BJP Government of failing to address the concerns of minorities.
Chairman (minority department) All India Congress Committee Khurshid Ahmad Syed told reporters here on Saturday, "It is only the Congress government in the country which has done a lot for the welfare of the minority community since independence."
Syed was in the state capital to attend a day-long state level convention of the minorities organised here to regain the faith of the minorities by the state unit of the minority department of the grand old party.
Syed further said that the Centre has implemented most of the recommendations of the Sachar committee report barring few, and the party also tried to bring Communal Violence Bill in Parliament, but it could not be passed because of the opposition.
He lauded the role of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi in the implementation of Sachar committee report.
The party's state minority department chairman Mohd Saleem alleged that the BJP government has a discriminatory attitude towards minority community.
Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee President and MP Arun Yadav said, “The Congress is the only well wisher of the minority community and it has started a lot of programmes for them in the country.”
leader of Opposition in MP Assembly Satyadev Katare, senior Congress leader Ibrahim Qureshi, Raja Pateria and many others spoke on the occasion.
The state minority department also honoured talented persons of the community who have done outstanding work in different fields and brought laurels for the community. The minority department also passed its political, social and economical resolutions besides the censure motion against the ruling BJP in the state.