It is the responsibility of the government to bring those who are lagging behind in the race of development to the same level as everyone else, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in an exclusive interview to Network18 in context of the Hind-Muslim debate in the country.
Speaking to Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi, Shah said there was no contradiction in the BJP’s stand when it came to Pasmanda Muslims and PM Modi’s outreach to them.
“Not at all. The prime minister has not only reached out to Pasmanda Muslims, he has done it for tribals, Dalits, backward classes, the poor, farmers, women and ‘matra shakti’, and youth as well. That is his work, it is his duty. I don’t see any contradiction in this,” he said.
The home minister attacked the Congress for playing appeasement politics and said the country would not accept it anymore. “They don’t realise that the people of the country are now aware. Your appeasement policy will not succeed now because when you do appeasement towards one group, a second one will counterproductively unite on the other side with that awareness. Now it will not succeed.”
He also accused the Congress of being against the Backward Class and giving their entitlements to the Muslim community. “This is not mentioned in this manifesto, this is what their government has already done in Karnataka. Overnight all the Muslims of Karnataka were made backward. No survey for backwardness was done, no commission was formed. All the people were declared backward on the basis of religion. And they were given reservation. And the reservation that was reduced was of OBCs. When I said that we would end the reservation on the basis of religion, then my video was distorted and presented in front of the public.”
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