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BJP reaches out to minorities

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Chalking out strategies: MP and president BJP Minority Morcha Syed Shah Nawaz Hussain with BJP State president Bandaru Dattatreya at the national executive of Minority Morcha in Hyderabad on Sunday. -

HYDERABAD: The BJP has called for a “new era of mutually supportive relationship” between the party and the minorities under L.K. Advani’s leadership.

“Let us make a new beginning in the country’s politics,” the political resolution adopted on the concluding day of the party’s Minority Morcha’s National Executive here on Sunday said. “Let us together strive to make it an era of peace, justice, socio-economic and educational development and lasting communal harmony. Now is indeed the time to create history”.

It claimed that the country’s political situation in favour of the BJP and the NDA could be clearly felt once again. Both the Congress and the UPA Government had become targets of people’s anger due to growing record of failures and betrayals.

The resolution charged the Congress with playing for decades a “cynical” game of inciting the sentiments of the minorities for its own partisan political gains. “While the Congress gained hugely, the minorities have been a big loser”. In spite of ruling the country for over 50 years, it has very little to show in terms of social, economic and educational development of minorities. It said raising attractive slogans and making promises was one ploy of the Congress to use the minorities as a vote-bank. Its other ploy was to project the BJP as “enemy of the minorities”. The resolution urged them to beware of the Congress’ “devious” game plan and teach a befitting lesson to the party in the coming Lok Sabha elections. Addressing the delegates, morcha president Syed Shah Nawaz Hussain described the resolution as a “historic document”. He said none of the secular parties had sought the minorities’ support on a positive note, saying otherwise the BJP would come to power.

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