Annoyed with the senior Congress leaders of the State for not allowing them to meet party vice president Rahul Gandhi, the Muslim leaders of the party here on Thursday observed fast and held peaceful demonstration at Iqbal Maidan.
A memorandum addressed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi apprising with plight of community in the State was also submitted to the collector through the SDM.
The demonstration was held under the leadership of former president of the Bhopal District Congress Committee (minority cell) SM Salman.
Salman addressing the gathering on the occasion alleged that the working of the state Congress leadership is prove enough to establish that it is anti Muslim and it does not care that if the Muslim votes drifted away from the Congress than what would be its consequences in the assembly
elections scheduled later
this year.
Not only the Muslims party workers, but the community leaders were also totally ignored during the visit of Rahul Gandhi, they were not given any space in the hoardings and banners of the party neither were they provided place at any stage, this attitude of the state Congress leadership would cost dear to the party in the coming assembly elections, he added.
He said that the party president and vice president have been informed about this conspiracy of keeping Muslims away from the party and soon a delegation of the community would call on them in New Delhi to appraise with the ground reality.
Meanwhile, a memorandum was handed over to the Rahul Gandhi at Manas Bhawan holding former PCC chief Suresh Pachouri responsible for the plight of the party in the State. The process of ignoring Muslims in the state started under the tenure of Pachouri as he follows the ideology of RSS, alleged Nizamuddin Ansari – a special invitee of the PCC, in the memorandum.