Home Minister Babulal Gaur, welcomed Jamiat Ulema e Hind chief Maulana Madani’s statement here on Monday that there is no need for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, to apologise for Gujarat riots nor any need to wear a skull cap.
Gaur said that Madani’s statement is based on reality, since development is the need of the hour for all sections of society. The minister also said that those who are afraid of defeat in the lok Sabha polls, have created fears against Modi in the minds of minorities.
The Congress is fooling minorities by wearing skull caps and seeking their votes and cheating them later in the name of development. He also said, the fear that the country would get divided if Modi becomes Prime Minister, had no substance and is the creation of pseudo-secularists.
He said that Madani’s statement is based on the fact that Modi treats considers every Indian equally and do not differentiate the citizens of the country on the basis of religion.
Notably, Maulana Mehmood Madani has said that Modi should not wear the cap for symbolic purposes as many politicians have been using the symbolic act to make a fool of Muslims.
“If you ask me to put a tilak , I won’t agree, not at all. And that doesn’t make me a bad person. I can be bad on accounts my action only. It has been our bad experience that symbolic acts have been done but real problems have not been solved. I don’t find not wearing skullcap as bad. I say that those who wear the cap fool Muslims. I want to tell them with folded hands not to make a fool of us. He should not wear the skullcap. Nobody should. It is only a symbolic thing and I don’t want symbolism. I want work,” Madani said in a television programme.