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Continuing the party’s ongoing efforts to pander to the minority vote-bank before the Lok Sabha polls, BJP national spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain on Saturday insisted that minorities were the most safe under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Addressing the media, Hussain said that while the Congress “spoke” about minorities, Modi was “doing work” for the minorities, and had formulated many schemes “for everyone” including people of all castes and all faiths “without asking them their religion.” He said that even though people from the minority communities had been the most apprehensive before Modi came to power in 2014, today, minority communities were “the most happy.”
Quoting statistics, he claimed that 18,000 villages had been given electricity in India under Modi out of which 7,000 villages were “minority villages.”
Citing the Modi government’s latest 10% reservation quota for upper caste poor, Hussain said, “This bill will benefit people from all communities including Muslims, Sikhs, and Christians.” He added that Modi’s whole idea was progress for everyone and not leaving anyone behind. He also said that in the upcoming elections, the Congress would “not be able to take the votes of the minorities.”
Meanwhile, when Hussain was asked why the BJP had still not launched an inquiry into the alleged Vishwajit Rane Rafale audio which the party claims is “doctored”, he said that they would not be doing so as “the people know it’s fake.” “How many inquiries will we carry out?” he asked. “Rahul Gandhi comes out with fake allegations everyday. The Congress never talks the truth,” was his response.
According to him, it was Rahul Gandhi who “could not understand the Rafale deal” despite Nirmala Sitharaman and Arun Jaitley “trying to explain the deal to him in Parliament.” Rafale was Congress’ way of diverting attention he said. He further said that the nation’s “chowkidars” were “alert and would protect India.”
When asked how come there was still no solution to the mining ban in Goa, Hussain said that the government was “looking for solutions,” but did not specify as to what these solutions were.
