Modi government ended red beacon culture and power politics, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said (File)
New Delhi:
Union Minister of Minorities Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday criticized Congress and governments led by the party before 2014, saying they need to get out of the “Indira is India” belief to understand that there are no two are Indians.
Speaking on behalf of the BJP during an ongoing discussion on the vote of thanks to the President’s speech, Mr Naqvi said: “We need to get out of the hangover of thinking that Indira is India and India is Indira and Congress is the country and the country is Congress”.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who criticized the presidential speech marking the start of Parliament’s budget session on Wednesday, said the speech lacked a strategic vision and failed to address the key challenges our country is currently facing, including the growing divide between the extremely rich and the poor in the country.
Mr Naqvi also informed the House that the Prime Minister Modi-led government has ended the rule of “austerity, commissions, family politics, Article 370 of Jammu and Kashmir, and introduced a Citizenship Change Act to protect religiously persecuted people”.
The BJP leader said there are two India; one is of the sanatan or thinking and the other of samantic or feudal.
Listing 28 changes made by the Prime Minister Modi government, Mr Naqvi spoke about how the situation has changed since 2014 and the ruling on austerity, committees has been completely halted.
In the Modi government, Mr Naqvi said that “the politics of the country are not determined on the basis of the political detour of the family, and now it is based on the hard work of eligible people.”
The Modi administration put an end to the red beacon culture and power politics, Naqvi said, adding, “We have also destroyed political reconciliation.”
After becoming prime minister, Narendra Modi made laws that were needed and removed the laws that had no rules in place and these lay idle for years, he added.
The minister said a total of 1,500 such unused laws have been repealed.
Mr Naqvi further said that “week of riots” and “months of terrorist attacks” have come to an end, and “we have responded to the neighboring country by carrying out surgical strikes against its terrorist activities”.
Referring to the statement by the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi that money sent by the central government from Delhi does not reach the people in its original form, the minister said this scenario has now changed and people receive what is sent by the central government .
Noting that there was a time when Supreme Court decisions were invalidated, Mr Naqvi said: “The government has taken steps to make the Supreme Court decision on Triple Talaq effective and passed a law to protect the rights of Muslim women. to protect.”
Mr Naqvi also mentioned how the government abolished Article 370 of Jammu and Kashmir, saying that the law cutting off the former state from the country’s development stream had been removed.
Passing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019, Mr Naqvi said: “The government of Modi has granted citizenship rights to people persecuted on the basis of religion and is allowing citizenship to six undocumented non-Muslim communities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who entered India on or before December 31, 2014.”
The minister also added that the CAA helped move the minorities out of Afghanistan after the Taliban took over the country.
The CAA was passed by Parliament on December 11, 2019 and the law was notified within 24 hours on December 12. The CAA exempts the members of the six communities from any criminal proceedings under the Foreigners Act, 1946 and the Passport Act, 1920.
