The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has accused the BJP and Congress of antipathy towards the Muslims in the state of Uttarakhand. The BSP divisional coordinator, Haji Saleem Ahmed leveled this allegation while addressing the media here on Wednesday. Blasting the major political parties for ignoring the Muslim community in last 15 years since the state was created; the BSP leader said that a step motherly treatment is being given to the community in the State.
Ahmed said that file for setting up an Urdu academy is stuck for last two years in the office of Minister of languages. He said that the term of Uttarakhand Waqf board had expired in month of April last year but new board is yet to be constituted.
The BSP leader said that there is no Waqf tribunal in the state due to which the properties of Waqf are under threat of encroachments. He said that the frame work of Madarsa Board constituted in the year 2011 is yet to be created.
Ahmed said that the state government has not appointed anyone to head both the Madarsa board and act due to which application of more than 200 Madarsas are pending for approval. He alleged that the State Government has not recruited even a single Urdu teacher since the year 2005. launching an scathing attack on state government the BSP leader said that it seized the powers of District Panchayat President, of Haridwar, Anjum Begum merely because she is a Muslim. He also lamented the BJP for not nominating any Muslim in the newly constituted state working committee headed by Ajay Bhatt.
The BSP leader claimed that recent success in Panchayat elections in Haridwar has shown that the people of state are fed up with both Congress and BJP and are determined to vote BSP to power in the next assembly elections.