Lucknow (UP), 18 th Dec 2022: Senior BJP leader and former Union Cabinet Minister Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today said here that, from the decades Muslim votes are being "chewed like chewing gum” and “chucked like castaway”.

Addressing “Minorities Rights Day” programme, organised by Uttar Pradesh Minorities Commission in Lucknow, Shri Naqvi said that the "crook contractors of votes" have committed “cruel, communal, criminal conspiracy” against the

Minorities to “hijack” their socio-economic and educational empowerment.

Shri Naqvi said that today, India has become the “flagbearer” of inclusive empowerment by crushing the “curse of communalism”. The Modi-Yogi era has made "Amar, Abdul, Antony” an equal partner of prosperity by lockout and blockade of the “cartel of communal champions of castes and communities”.

Shri Naqvi said that the “treacherous traders of votes” are responsible for economic, educational and social backwardness of some sections of the Muslim community. The “coterie of communalism” is dissipated as the Modi Government has ensured prosperity and dignity of all sections without any discrimination. Shri Naqvi said that today the time has changed, the environment has changed and mood of the country has changed.

The ‘Modi Magic” has replaced “praxis of polarisation” with “politics of prosperity”. Along with majority communities, the minority communities have been benefitted equally by the positive atmosphere of “development with trust” in the Governments led by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Shri Yogi Adityanath.

Shri Naqvi said that those who say that the development of minorities and the development of the country are separate to each other, are doing a "criminal fraud" to keep the minorities away from the mainstream of progress. “Fear and fallacy” was created in the name of Sachar Committee to scare the Muslims. The “sham syndicate of secularism” created confusion through the Committee by claiming that condition of the Muslims is worse than that of dalits, tribals and other backward sections. The truth is that the backwardness of dalits is due to various historical and social reasons, while the poverty of the Muslims is the result of “political deceit” by some political parties.

Shri Naqvi said that a large number of beneficiaries of the welfare schemes of Modi-Yogi and all other BJP Governments, belong to the minority communities also. Minorities are also getting equal benefits from the schemes of electricity, roads, water, health, education, housing, employment, economic and social empowerment. Today, there has been a positive and constructive change in the thinking of the minority communities.

Uttar Pradesh Minister of State for Minority Welfare Shri Danish Azad, UP Minorities Commission Chairman Shri Ashfaq Saifi, BJP UP Minority Morcha president Shri Basit Ali and other dignitaries were present on the occasion.