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BJP raises Bhagalpur to counter
Laloo New Delhi, January 21 On Id, the BJP also appealed to the minority community to demolish the “laboratory of pseudo-secularism” in the state for their all-round progress. “Mr Laloo Prasad Yadav is making the Banerjee report an issue for the Bihar elections, whereas he had failed to provide justice to thousands of innocent Muslims who had become the target during the Bhagalpur riots in 1989,” BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told newspersons here. “It is a sad commentary on Mr Yadav when one is reminded of those 120 innocent members of the minority community who were massacred at the hands of Bihar police and thrown into a pond. Their families are yet to get justice”, Mr Naqvi said. He said Mr Yadav had no business to “shed crocodile tears” in the name of the Banerjee Committee report”. “In the past 15 years minorities have been intoxicated with the opium of pseudo-secularism by Mr Yadav to exploit their socio-economic backwardness,” he added. According to the Bihar Government’s survey on socio-economic development of the minorities, in the past 15 years of Mr Yadav’s rule more than 50 per cent of the minorities are living below the poverty line, 45 per cent are illiterate, over 75 per cent are unemployed and farmers, labourers are running from pillar to post for their rights, he said. “The RJD government seeking votes shamelessly in the name of secularism and social justice is a farce,” Mr Naqvi added. However, in response to a question, he said the party had given ticket to a single Muslim of its 105 candidates contesting the coming Bihar Assembly poll. |
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BJP seeks derecognition of RJD symbol New Delhi, January 21 Mr Laloo Prasad’s assertion that he would continue to use the report in the electioneering despite a warning to this effect by the Election Commission was in fact a challenge to the constitutional authority, BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said at the party’s daily briefing. “The party demands that the RJD symbol be frozen,” he said. Mr Naqvi said the RJD supremo was misusing the Justice Banerjee report to divert people’s attention from his government’s misgovernance, corruption and backwardness of the state. Refering to the RJD’s manifesto promising the amelioration and welfare of the minorities, he said the fact remained that in the 15 years of misrule in Bihar, minorities suffered the most economically, 50 per cent of them living below the poverty line, 45 per cent illiterate and over 75 still unemployed. Besides, farmers and labourers were running from pillar to post for their rights. But the RJD was not ashamed of seeking votes in the name of “secularism and social justice”, he said. —
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