Bjp govt at centre wants to erase the contribution of minorities says tejashwi

Bjp govt at centre wants to erase the contribution of minorities says tejashwi

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday launched a blistering attack on the BJP government at the Centre, accusing it of denying the contribution of Muslims in the freedom struggle in a bid to communally polarise society.

He was addressing a symposium organised by his party in Patna in memory of Yusuf Meher Ali, a renowned freedom fighter and socialist thinker.

‘Our youth should know that it was Yusuf Meher Ali who had coined slogans like ‘Quit India’ and ‘Simon Go Back’, which have been immortalised in the textbooks of modern Indian history. The current regime in the country wants to erase the contributions of minorities since it believes in a Hindu versus Muslim binary,’ Mr. Yadav said.

‘We, on the other hand, are believers in the ideology of socialism and are committed to treading our own path despite all odds. Our socialist commitment has been there for all to see in the year and a half since we formed a government headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, with the blessings of party chief Lalu Prasad,’ he added.

Taking potshots at the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre, the RJD leader said, ‘We have in a short period of time provided jobs to lakhs of people in Bihar. The current regime at the Centre makes a big show of recruiting a few thousand people across the country, which has a population of over one billion’.

The deputy Chief minister asserted that his government will be able to fulfil its promise of providing 10 lakh jobs ‘by 2025’, the year in which the State will be facing its next Assembly election.

‘BJP against quota’

Mr. Yadav said the ruling BJP at the Centre had been banavati, milaavati aur dikhaavati (full of contrivance, impurities, and show off) and charged the party with being ‘anti-reservationist’.

Mr. Yadav also rubbished the allegation of Union Home Minister Amit Shah that the caste survey had given ‘inflated’ numbers of Muslims and Yadavs, which would be to the detriment of the Other Backward Classes.