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Congress not serious about Muslims' welfare:
Azam Khan
Sunday August 12, 2012 11:14:39 AM,
IANS
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Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh
Urban Development Minister and Samajwadi Party leader Mohammad
Azam Khan Saturday launched a scathing attack on the Congress,
saying it was only using Muslims as a vote-bank and was never
serious about their welfare and development.
"A party which amended the constitution for Dalit reservation has
failed to act on giving job reservations to Muslims... the
Congress had been completely exposed on its fake stand on
minority," he said.
If the Congress does not wake up now, people of the minority
community will ensure that the party is booted out of power at the
centre in 2014, he warned.
Taking a leaf out of the Sachar Committee recommendations, Khan
highlighted how the committee, in its report, had recorded that
the state of Muslims was in far bad shape than the Dalits.
In such a situation, the Congress should have stepped forward and
taken cudgels on behalf of Muslims, he said.
Noting that his Samajwadi Party was in favour of reservations for
Muslims in jobs, Azam Khan also questioned why did the Congress
not offer to amend the constitution after the Supreme Court raised
its objections on the proposed quota for minorities in jobs mooted
by the central government.
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