To win over Muslims, lot more to be done by Modi govt: Naqvi

New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government would have to do a lot more to gain the confidence of Muslims said the Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. He also said that the minds of the Muslim community have been poisoned over the last 70 years.

According to agencies, Naqvi said “the good thing is that the new generation, the women are evaluating the BJP on its merits and demerits. This is a very positive development.” But “We have to do a lot more to gain the confidence of Muslims because their minds have been poisoned over the last 70 years.

The minority affairs minister that the BJP’s defeat in the recent Kairana by-election had not affected the party’s “winning spree”, but had certainly prompted it to have re-look at its strategy for the Lok Sabha elections. “It does not mean that we will lose all the elections. Now that we know that the opposition parties will stitch an alliance to contest the Lok Sabha polls, we will prepare a strategy to counter them,” Naqvi said.

Naqvi also said the BJP government would remind Muslims of the schemes the government started for their development and the efforts it made against ‘triple talaq’ during the campaigning for the 2019 elections. The minister had recently hosted an Iftar party for Muslim women. A few victims of ‘triple talaq’ had also attended it.

Regional heavyweights have been mulling the idea of forming a “united front” to stop the BJP’s juggernaut in 2019.

Siasat Web Team