Congress should clarify its promise of prioritising Muslims for access to national resources: BJP

Tuesday, 23 April 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN

The Bharatiya Janata Party has stated that the Congress should clarify whether it still believes that Muslims should have the first right to the resources of the nation. The BJP State president Mahendra Bhatt said that the Congress which outsources even the preparation of its election manifesto has been exposed and is now afraid to make public its anti-Sanatan resolutions.

In an informal interaction with the media here on Monday, Bhatt said that the ‘Nyay Patra’ of the Congress carries the hidden agenda of looting the nation under the pretext of a socio-economic survey, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi has exposed. He said that Modi has exposed the injustice to the majority in the manifesto of the Congress which is the reason why the party leaders from Delhi to Dehradun are finding it difficult to face the public. “Such is the ideological void in the Congress that it gets its manifesto prepared by the communists. They talk about a socio-economic survey in the manifesto but hesitate to talk about it in the public. The people know that the economic survey will take into account the movable and immovable property. Now, the Congress is not acknowledging this for fear of the public,” the BJP State president said.

Recalling the statement of the then PM Manmohan Singh who had reportedly stated that Muslims should have the first right to the resources of the nation, Bhatt asked whether Congress can retract from that promise. “Doesn’t the Congress want to annul CAA and protect the intruders? The people know well that the Congress pursues the policy of minority appeasement. The difference now is that such claims are limited to closed rooms and the language used in the election manifesto,” he claimed.

Bhatt further said that the latest example of the government controlling Sanatan property is from Karnataka where the Congress government is working on facilitating 10 per cent tax on the donations to Hindu temples. Similarly, the government has control over the management of temples in Tamil Nadu while in Kerala the communist State government objects to the use of saffron colour in temples in the State.