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| Congress party's minorities cell in action | | UP Muslim voters witness new propaganda stuff | |
BL KAK
NEW DELHI, Apr 20:
A booklet just brought out by the Congress party is clearly meant to rope in the Muslim electorate in Uttar Pradesh. Circulated by the Congress party's minorities cell, the booklet titled 'Musalman Congress kay saath kyon' describes the Congress party as the "messiah of the Muslims".
The 12-page booklet continues to be circulated among Muslims in Uttar Pradesh, where Assembly polls are, at present, going on. The booklet -- in Urdu and in Hindi -- not only goes about proclaiming that the Congress was responsible for extending opportunity to Muslims to occupy top constitutional and political posts, but also goes on to take credit for the rise of celebrities like Dilip Kumar (Yusuf Khan), Shah Rukh Khan, Sania Mirza as well as a number of Indian cricketers.
The booklet claims: "It was only because the Congress never treated Muslims as outcasts and provided them an open, free and secular environment in this country that they could enhance their capabilities and inner talent". The booklet declared: "And the Congres party not only helped in Azeem Premji emerging as the richest man in the country, but also forging stars like Dilip Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan to the top rung in the Indian film industry". Lest his screen name be misunderstood, Dilip Kumar's real name -- Yusuf Khan -- was mentioned within brackets.
It then seeks to assign the same reason to the fame achieved by top musicians -- Amjad Khan (Sarod), Zakir Hussain (Tabla) and Bismillah Khan (Shehnai) besides cricketers -- Nawab of Pataudi, Syed Kirmani, Azaruddin, Zaheer Khan, Irfan Pathan, Mohammad Kaif, Munaf Patel, Wasim Jafar , as well as tennis star Sania Mirza.
The booklet pointed out: "If these people had not been provided a congenial atmosphere without any discrimination for being a Muslim, then probably no one would have heard of them". The booklet posed: Who was responsible for creating such an environment? Answer to this question: "Congress."
While tracing the history of Muslim-Congress proximity right to the founders of the Congress party and crediting Jawaharlal Nehru for drawing the larger chunk of Muslims to side with India after the partition, the document sings pro-Indira Gandhi praises for carrying on her father's legacy. "It was under Indira Gandhi's leadership that the Congress appointed not just one, but three Muslim Presidents of India, three Vice-Presidents, three Chief Justices, 18 State Governors, one Indian Air Force Chief and several State Chief Ministers as well as foreign ambassadors," the booklet boasts.
Stating that this was the only example on the globe where members of the religious minorities were given such top positions, the booklet reminds how the Congress was the only Indian political outfit that had been headed by seven Muslims over different periods of time. "No other major political party in India had elevated any Muslim to the top organisational post", it points out.
Terming the Supreme Court judgment in the Shah Bano case as the "biggest attack on Muslims", the booklet seeks to highlight "how Indira Gandhi's son Rajiv Gandhi sacrificed power for the sake of restoring the religious rights of Muslims by bringing in a new parliamentary legislation to nullify the Shah Bano judgment that was an infringement with the personal law of Muslims". Evidently, it seeks to impress upon the Muslim youth that Congress president Sonia Gandhi was once again focused on insuring genuine economic and educational upliftment of Muslims
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