New Delhi, March 14: Opposition NDA on Monday said the UPA government has alienated minorities and its “secular factory” has put a stamp of al-Qaida on Muslims in the country.
“Your secular factory has put a stamp of al-Qaida on Muslims…on each Muslim”, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi ( BJP) said in the Rajya Sabha during a debate on working of the ministry of minority affairs.
He said while the government claims that minorities are being given bank credit, the loan applications of Muslims are rejected the moment their identity is revealed.
Naqvi said the Haj pilgrims are charged exorbitant fare for going to Mecca.
While the two-way air fair to London is Rs 32,000 to Rs 35,000, Haj pilgrims are paying double the amount for half the distance.
He said it appeared that the government wants to pass on the “burden of its deficit and debt” on the pilgrims.
–Agencies