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BJP hits out at PM's 'deafening silence'
Thursday February 16, 2012 02:27:32 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Thursday that Steel Minister
Beni Prasad Verma's promise of increased quotas for Muslims in
Uttar Pradesh was another manifestation of Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh's "deafening silence" on issues.
Had the prime minister acted against Law Minister Salman Khurshid,
who got into trouble with the Election Commission over a similar
promise and had to apologise, nobody would have dared repeat it,
BJP leader Balbir Punj said.
"The silence of the prime minister is deafening and he should open
his mouth about what he thinks. Had he acted on the Election
Commission's letter against Khurshid, nobody would have dared to
repeat it," he said.
"One instance could be a coincidence but attacking the Election
Commission again and again... then there has to be a method.
Congress is in a desperate situation as their yuvraj (Rahul
Gandhi) has high stakes in UP and they are not getting any
success," said Punj.
He called the apology by Khurshid a half-hearted attempt just to
get out of a sticky situation.
"One minister after another taking on the Election Commission
cannot happen without the approval of party president Sonia
Gandhi," he added.
Addressing a political rally at Kayamganj assembly constituency in
Farrukhabad district Wednesday, Verma had said: "Muslims don't
have their homes; they don't have jobs and 70 percent of them work
as labourers. Non-Congress governments in the state have not done
anything for their betterment.
"We will make sure that quotas for them is increased if the
Congress comes to power in Uttar Pradesh," he said.
Verma's remarks came two days after Khurshid apologised to the
poll panel.
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