BJP president Rajnath Singh on Saturday said that minority Muslim community has been benefited the most in the BJP-ruled States as party doesn’t believe in discrimination. The BJP Governments in these States are working for all round development and Muslims are getting their due share in it, he asserted.
Presiding over a seminar on “challenges before minorities”, the BJP president said that his party doesn’t believe in words but in action which could be visible in the BJP-ruled States taking into account the progress made by minorities there.
The one-day seminar was organised by Urdu channel of ETV and was attended by several top literary, social, religious and political personalities.
Without referring to Gujarat, Singh said the BJP Governments should not be judged only by some minor incidents but by the work carried out by them for development. He said not a single riot took place in the BJP-ruled States since 2002 and this fact should be remembered by the critics of the party.
BJP spokesman Shahnawaz Hussain said no one in the country has the authority to give certificates of secularism and communalism merely on utterances of someone or wearing or not wearing a particular kind of cap. They should be judged on their performance.
Earlier, inaugurating the seminar, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said it was unfortunate that successive Governments at the Centre and in the States have failed to spend the entire Budget allotted under the schemes for minorities. “By ensuring the utilisation of the Budget for minorities, many of the problems of the community could be solved,” he said.