‘Stung’ by minority votes in LS polls, BJP deploys Union Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju for image makeover ahead of Maharashtra polls

“It’s a information that the number did not ballot for the BJP… The main crushed that I americium connected a circuit of Maharashtra is to alteration the mindset of the number community…” Rijiju told media persons successful Pune.

“If they (minority communities) are benefiting from each authorities schemes launched by the BJP-led government, past wherefore are they not voting for the party? We privation to region the incorrect content among Muslims that the BJP is against the community,” the Union curate added.

He alleged that Congress misled the number communities and instilled a fearfulness successful them that the Constitution would beryllium altered if the BJP was voted to power. “Congress person Rahul Gandhi and his enactment leaders are defaming the state crossed the satellite by saying incorrect things. It was clip to thatch a acquisition to Congress for spreading a incorrect narrative,” Rijiju said.

The Union curate further said that Congress projected the Ministry of Minority Affairs arsenic the ‘ministry of Muslim affairs’ contempt the information that determination are six number communities.

“It was chiefly (done) to usage the Muslim assemblage arsenic a ballot slope and we are explaining… to the Muslim assemblage however Congress utilized them lone for elections,” Rijiju added.

He besides alleged that Congress downplayed the publication of Babasaheb Ambedkar. “The Union Government volition conserve each spot successful Maharashtra that is linked to Ambedkar and besides conception Samvidhan Bhavan successful each districts of the authorities to item the publication of Ambedkar and the value of the Constitution among the public,” concluded the BJP MP.