By TCN News,
New Delhi: Claiming that the people have begun to realise that the agenda of development (of BJP) was only a smoke screen and the real agenda was communalisation of the Indian society, E Ahamed, MP and national president, IUML, on Monday said, “The minorities became their target. A poisonous communal propaganda was unleashed by the Sangh Parivar and its supporters.”
“Churches were vandalised in the capital. Police remained inactive. Anti-minority statements started from various quarters which created nervousness and fear in the minds of minority communities,” Ahmad said during the discussion on demands for grant for the Home Ministry for 2015-16 in Lok Sabha.
E Ahamed (file photo) (Courtesy: HT)
This Home Ministry is responsible for social integration and communal harmony, he said, adding, it is a serious question of pondering why the incidents of communal violence have shot up after May 26, 2014. “More than 200 serious incidents of communal disturbances have occurred and even criminal acts have been given communal colour to use it as an instrument to create disunity in the society,” the IUML president said.
The Communal Violence Bill, an initiative of the previous UPA regime, seems to have been put on the back burner by the NDA government with the home ministry unlikely to push the controversial legislation, he pointed out.
The Muslim community which makes up around 14% of India’s population continues to be the victim of discrimination. The Sachaar Commission highlighted this problem on the basis of reliable data. The Muslims are the citizens of this country. They have contributed substantially towards building this country. They have a claim on the resources of this country like all others. He asked: “Where has the constitutional assurance and guarantee of equality and non-discrimination gone? Can this country progress in the real sense if 14% of the population remains backward?” a release said here.
“The minorities in this country have a genuine fear. The BJP government is ideologically guided by the Sangh Parivar. So cannot govern the country on the basis of secular loss for long. The attempts to re-write the history of India are in progress which will reflect the Sangh’s view of India’s past. A whole blue-print for communalising the structures of government and the society is ready,” he said.