A group of eminent citizens from the Muslim community has welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent remarks on the need to address the welfare of minorities, and offered to engage with him on issues of educational backwardness, skill development and confidence building measures.
Referring to Modi’s speech to NDA MPs on May 26, the citizens wrote in a letter they were happy to note the PM was “unequivocally” committed to work for and serve all sections of society and that bringing the marginalised into the mainstream was essential to realise the dream of making India the world’s third largest economy. They said the community would welcome confidence-building measures that assure minorities equal protection under the Constitution and the law.
Letter echoes Modi’s comments
The letter took note of PM Modi’s comments where he said, “The way the poor have been cheated, the minorities have been deceived the same way. It would have been good if their education, their health had been in focus. Minorities have been made to live in fear by those who believed in vote-bank politics. I expect from you in 2019 that you would be able to make a hole in that deception. We have to earn their trust.”
The letter said, “You have very pertinently pinpointed the problem of minorities, in particular of education and healthcare. Indeed, these two sectors are crucial to bring the minorities into the mainstream and to make them fully productive in order to realise your dream of turning India into the third largest economy of the world.”
