New Delhi: Citing a brand new report on India’s demographic transition, Data and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur puzzled how Muslims can really feel insecure within the nation, particularly when their inhabitants has reportedly elevated by 45 per cent they usually have been equal recipients of presidency welfare programmes.
A working paper on inhabitants tendencies launched lately by the Financial Advisory Council to the Prime Minister stated the inhabitants of majority Hindus declined by 7.82 per cent between 1950 and 2015 whereas that of Muslims elevated by 43.15 per cent, suggesting that there’s a conducive setting to foster variety. It, nonetheless, didn’t give absolute numbers.
In an interview to PTI late Friday, senior BJP chief Thakur stated the minorities are clearly thriving and needn’t fear. He additionally rubbished the opposition’s cost that the BJP would change the Structure. Quite the opposite, the BJP will be sure that reservation for SCs, STs and OBCs isn’t diluted or altered by anybody.
The four-time MP from Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh, who’s defending his seat in opposition to Congress’ Satpal Raizada, accused the get together of looking for to remove the reservation meant for SCs/STs/OBCs and supply it to Muslims.He additionally alleged that the Congress is aiming to seize the wealth of individuals and supply the identical to Muslims to additional its appeasement and vote financial institution politics.
The Congress has denied these claims, additionally made by different BJP leaders, as lies and distortion of their manifesto.Prime Minister Narendra Modi has additionally stated that he won’t ever permit reservation based mostly on faith by taking away quotas meant for SCs, STs and OBCs, Thakur stated.
Requested if there was a necessity for coverage change on inhabitants management or a laws on the problem within the wake of fixing demography, Thakur stated the brand new authorities will focus on the problem after which take a name after dialogue as inhabitants figures have simply come out in public area.He stated the figures present that the inhabitants of Muslims in India has elevated by virtually 45-47 per cent over 65 years.What do these figures point out.
On one facet the inhabitants of Hindus declined by 7.8 per cent and alternatively the inhabitants of Muslims elevated by 45-47 per cent. One has to ponder over the explanations behind this.In Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, the inhabitants of Hindus was 23 per cent in 1947, now they’re solely 2 per cent left. And nonetheless, some folks in India say Muslims are insecure. Their inhabitants has elevated by 45 per cent, nonetheless they are saying they’re insecure, he stated.
How are they insecure? We by no means stated vote for us out of compulsions, we have now not indulged in any vote financial institution politics. We freed Muslim ladies of the scourge of triple talaq, we have now additionally offered Muslims ladies with pukka homes, bogs and free (cooking fuel) cylinders, apart from free medical therapy even when they’ve eight kids.
They’ve additionally benefited from our schemes, the minister stated.On the Structure, he advised PTI, There might be no change of Structure. He stated the BJP has been in energy for the final 10 years whereas wielding absolute majority in Parliament. Nonetheless, it has not made any Constitutional modification, Thakur stated.It’s the Congress which has amended the Structure on a regular basis.
Apart from, the Congress insulted Babasaheb Ambedkar, who gave us this Structure, and even labored to ship him out of politics. The Congress additionally didn’t give him honour, he alleged.As a substitute, he stated, it was Narendra Modi who made ‘paanch teerth’ at Nagpur, Mhow, Mumbai, Delhi and England in honour of Babasaheb Ambedkar and started marking Structure Day on November 26, apart from declaring a vacation on Ambedkar Jayanti on April 14.
I wish to inform this nation and the youth that it was Indira Gandhi who murdered democracy and if anybody has tried to crush the Structure, it’s Arvind Kejriwal, Thakur stated.Even the creators of the Structure would have by no means thought {that a} chief minister and deputy chief minister can be in jail for corruption and nonetheless are reluctant to resign from their posts, Thakur added.Thakur additionally reeled out authorities statistics to help his view that the BJP authorities has persistently labored over the last 10 years for the poor, particularly the backward class and castes.Out of 4 crore homes made below the PM Awas Yojna by PM Modi, as many as 58 per cent homes have been made for SC/STs, he stated.
He additionally cited the Rs 6,000 annual dole given to farmers, of which a majority of the beneficiaries are SC/ST and OBC class folks.Thakur famous that 4 crore homes, 12 crore bogs, 13 crore water connections and 10 crore free cooking fuel cylinders have been offered to folks, in addition to free medical therapy to 60 crore folks and free ration to 80 crore folks.These folks (opposition) are spreading worry, misconceptions and rumours that SC/ST reservation will go, however the fact is that wherever the Congress governments got here, in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana, they took away SC/ST quota and gave to Muslims and are creating worry amongst SC/STs, Thakur stated.
The senior BJP MP stated Congress chief Rahul Gandhi desires a survey that may result in wealth redistribution. That is appeasement politics which the Congress began, not us, he stated.We have now executed ‘Sabka Vikas’ and didn’t do Hindu-Muslim, and we’ll keep it up doing work like this in future.
However when these folks say such issues for votes that they are going to give to Muslims, then we elevate questions that they attempt to insult Hindus and discuss of crushing Sanatan and discuss of giving assets to Muslims, Thakur stated.
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