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Union Minister of Minority Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs Kiren Rijiju. (Express Photo by Prem Nath Pandey)
Union Minister of Minority Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs Kiren Rijiju Wednesday alleged that the Minority Affairs Ministry was thought to beryllium “ministry of Muslim affairs” during the Congress authorities arsenic it created a “Muslim ballot bank.”
Talking astir PM Narendra Modi-led cardinal government’s achievements successful the archetypal 100 days of its 3rd term, Rijiju said, “The enactment done by the Minority Affairs Ministry has to scope people. I person been to places recently, and radical till present thought that it was the ministry of Muslim affairs. During the Congress tenure, they created the Muslim ballot bank. That’s wherefore they lone spoke of Muslims. But present we are moving for six communities… It was incorrect earlier, it harmed the Muslims.”
“We person started community-wise targeted programmes. So, everyone knows we are moving for Parsis, Buddhists, Jains, Christians, Sikhs and Muslims,” helium said, adding that “people should cognize the Modi authorities has done much for minorities than erstwhile governments.”
He claimed that during the Congress governments, “only a Muslim could go a chairperson for National Commission for Minorities. That had hampered the ministry’s nonsubjective due to the fact that Muslims remained poor. Why? Because they were treated arsenic a ballot bank.”
“We changed the cognition and radical cognize determination are six number communities successful India and each schemes are benefiting each six number communities,” helium said.
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