Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 10: BJP National Executive Member and Chairperson of Waqf Development Committee of Union Ministry of Minority Affairs, Dr Darakhshan Andrabi today said that Muslims in India have progressed during Modi regime like never before.
Addressing a Press conference at Bangalore today, Dr Andrabi who is on a tour of Karnataka state along with a delegation of Central Waqf Council in connection with inspection in the State, Andrabi said Modi Govt has launched many minority welfare schemes and programmes, initiated by the Ministry of Minority Affairs under the leadership of the Union Minister, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. She said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shown us the way to uplift the minorities and backward classes in India economically, educationally and socially so that they are able to lead the mainstream developmental activity of the country.
“Minorities in India have progressed during the Modi regime like never before. Without any hue & cry of theoretical secularism, this Government at the Centre believes in practicality and has created a multi-pronged developmental system for minorities to get special benefits from Government schemes which has resulted in a revolutionary change among minorities at the grass root level throughout the country,” Dr Andrabi said.
She further said that Congress and its allies only used minorities in India as their tool for seven decades and kept them economically, educationally and socially backward. “Modi led Government has created an atmosphere where India is developing as an integrated whole without any appeasement or discrimination and this approach of the government has dawned as an ‘awakening’ among minorities in India and they are now active participants of the growth story of India” said Andrabi.
Giving details about the shrines management in Karnataka, Dr Andrabi said that she was happy to see that Waqf record and management system are being adhered to as per the guidelines of CWC and the digitization of records is happening at a fast speed. In reply to a question about lesser representation of Muslims in BJP, the BJP NEC member said that it is up to Muslim leadership to associate them with BJP so that the representation percentage enhances.
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