For a “pseudo-secular party” like TMC, ‘minorities’ solely imply Muslims, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju mentioned on Tuesday as he hit out at Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Jawhar Sircar’s criticism of PM Narendra Modi authorities’s choice to “give charge of Muslims, Christians” to “hardcore Hindu” Smriti Irani.
On July 6, the TMC Rajya Sabha MP, whereas questioning the ruling BJP social gathering’s choice handy extra cost of the Minority Affairs ministry to Irani, tweeted, “Hardcore Hindu, married to a Parsi given charge of Muslims, Christians. Is this BJP’s brand of secularism?”
Reacting to Sircar’s observations, Rijiju took to Twitter and wrote, “Muslims and Christians? I hope one can free mind from the shackles of pseudo-secularism and appeasement politics. Parsis have been notified as minority communities under Section 2 (c) of National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992.”
Rijiju additional mentioned Opposition solely sees Muslims, whereas ignoring others, because the ‘minorities’, and accused the events of practising vote-bank and appeasement politics. “For Congress Party, TMC, Communist and pseudo-secular parties, minorities in India means only Muslims. Because Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, Sikhs are not large vote banks. They have been using Muslims and to some extend Christians, for electoral purpose only (sic),” mentioned Rijiju.
Union Woman and Child Development minister Irani was given the extra cost of the Minority Affairs ministry after Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi resigned from PM Modi’s cupboard. Naqvi, the lone Muslim face within the Union cupboard, was the Minority Affairs minister earlier than his tenure within the Rajya Sabha ended final week.
Last month, a number of BJP leaders like Piyush Goyal and Nirmala Sitharaman had been nominated for the Rajya Sabha polls, in order that they may proceed as Union ministers. However, Naqvi’s title was not proposed. Contrary to many studies, Naqvi wasn’t fielded within the recently-held Lok Sabha bypolls from UP’s Rampur both. Now, media studies counsel there are rumours that Naqvi is perhaps the frontrunner from NDA for the upcoming Vice-Presidential elections, although there isn’t a official indication on his candidature from the BJP but.
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