Luknow,February 26 :With an eye on election in three muslim dominated states where congress party has been relegated to zero position because of Babri-masjid issue the regenerated congress party under the leadership of royal scion rahul gandhi wants to rule and woo the innocent muslims of uttar pradesh bihar and west bengal who by themselves account for more than 50% of indias muslim population.
The congress party came to power in AP because of muslims votes and it has deceived them in giving reservation .The reservation issue was stuck down by high court 3 times in the last 5 years where as Muslims of kerala ,karnataka and tamilnadu are getting reservation for the last 10 years to 17 years with out any hitch.
The Congress general secy pushes for a consensus on reservation for the Muslims.CONGRESS general secretary Digvijay Singh has stepped on the gas in his drive to woo the Muslims of Uttar Pradesh ( UP).
On Thursday, he said his party was striving to achieve a consensus on reservation for the Muslim community on the basis of their educational, social and economic backwardness.“ Though we cannot give reservation on religious grounds, it is possible to do so on the basis of backwardness. We are discussing this issue and trying to reach a consensus. It will be implemented in the near future,” he said in Gorakhpur.
He was addressing a seminar on ‘ Social Justice and Minority Community’, organised in the memory of late Ashfaq Husain Ansari, an ex- MP of the party from Maharajganj.He blamed the Mayawati government for the backwardness of the community in the state and called upon his party leaders to expose it.
“ The state government doesn’t spend more than 20 per cent of the budget allocated for the community in UP. I want our leaders in the state to release a status report on how much money was sent by the Centre and how much was spent by the state,” he said.The Congress sees Gorakhpur and its adjoining areas as major vote banks because Yogi Adityanath, the BJP MP and successor of Gorakshnath Peeth, has never concealed his hatred for the Muslim community. Digvijay blamed Adityanath for communal violence in the region.
“ The Gorakshnath Peeth was known for Hindu- Muslim unity. Gorakhnath had welcomed all communities to his
sect. But some politicians in the area have now given a communal colour to his sect and are spreading hatred,” he said.
He went a step further and blamed senior BJP leader L. K. Advani for this trend.“ Advani’s rath yatra was the beginning of the divide between the Hindus and Muslims,” he said.
Later, he revealed that All India Congress Committee general secretary Rahul Gandhi would inaugurate a chetna yatra against the communal forces in UP from April.“ Most senior party leaders will attend the yatra between April 14 and September 15,” he said and added that 10 horse carriages would be used for this purpose.He also attended an Urdu poetry meet at Saraimeer in Azamgarh.
Earlier in February, Digvijay had visited Sanjarpur village in Azamgarh district and met the family members of those killed in the Batla House encounter.