BJP to protest against 'minority appeasement'
New Delhi, Dec 12: The BJP today strongly condemned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's ''Muslims first'' remarks at the NDC, and resolved to organise a week-long nationwide protest against the ''minority appeasement policies'' of the UPA government from December from Dec 15.
A resolution to this effect was taken at the Parliamentary Party meeting, presided over by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha L K Advani criticised the appeasement policies pursued by the UPA for the sake of wooing the minorities, right from the appointment of the Justice Rajinder Sachar Committee to head the panel on 'Muslim Status'. Now their aim was to garner support in the coming assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh and other states, he charged.
The BJP Parliamentary Party resolution comes in the wake of disruption of Parliament demanding Prime Minister's apology to the nation for saying that minorities had the first claim over resources.
BJP Parliamentary Party Spokesman Vijay Kumar Malhotra said ''It is an open secret that for the Congress, 'minorities' is the synonym for Muslims.'' He said the party would organise nationwide dharnas and protests against this ''attitude'' from December 15 to 20 in all major and minor towns of the country to alert the people about the ''dangers'' of the UPA policies.
''The BJP was for all the poor people to have first right over resources and not because they were of any particular religion,'' he added.
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