07-30-2007, 01:31 PM
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> BJP not anti-minority, says Sushma
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
<b>The BJP, which has fielded former Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Najma Heptullah as its vice-presidential candidate, on Sunday, called for efforts from partymen to dispel the "myth" that it was an anti-minority party.
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<b>Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj, however, claimed Heptullah's candidacy had nothing to do with her religion.</b> "She is the best person for the post not because she is a woman or that she belongs to a minority community, but she had an experience of 17 years of running the House as its vice-chairperson," Swaraj said at the concluding session of two-day BJP's Minority Cell executive committee meeting.
"No other person, be it Rasheed Masood or Hamid Ansari, can fit into the frame of the Vice-President," she said.
Former Union Minister and president of the BJP's Minority Cell Syed Shahnawaz Hussain, Mohammad Arif Khan, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and minority leaders from across the country were present in the meeting.
"The minorities have been misinformed by all parties that BJP is against the minority community and you have to dispel this myth," she said, adding, "for this, you will have go to them with all facts and strong argument but without arrogance."
BJP national vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the perception in the West that all Muslims are terrorists should be contested. "It is wrong to equate all Muslims with Al Qaeda. Such things will only help elements like the Al Qaeda," he said.
Naqvi said history had proven that countries and people, which have used terrorism, are now at the receiving end. "Now these terrorists are a threat to these people. This is what happened to the US and Pakistan," he said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> BJP not anti-minority, says Sushma
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
<b>The BJP, which has fielded former Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Najma Heptullah as its vice-presidential candidate, on Sunday, called for efforts from partymen to dispel the "myth" that it was an anti-minority party.
</b>
<b>Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj, however, claimed Heptullah's candidacy had nothing to do with her religion.</b> "She is the best person for the post not because she is a woman or that she belongs to a minority community, but she had an experience of 17 years of running the House as its vice-chairperson," Swaraj said at the concluding session of two-day BJP's Minority Cell executive committee meeting.
"No other person, be it Rasheed Masood or Hamid Ansari, can fit into the frame of the Vice-President," she said.
Former Union Minister and president of the BJP's Minority Cell Syed Shahnawaz Hussain, Mohammad Arif Khan, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and minority leaders from across the country were present in the meeting.
"The minorities have been misinformed by all parties that BJP is against the minority community and you have to dispel this myth," she said, adding, "for this, you will have go to them with all facts and strong argument but without arrogance."
BJP national vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the perception in the West that all Muslims are terrorists should be contested. "It is wrong to equate all Muslims with Al Qaeda. Such things will only help elements like the Al Qaeda," he said.
Naqvi said history had proven that countries and people, which have used terrorism, are now at the receiving end. "Now these terrorists are a threat to these people. This is what happened to the US and Pakistan," he said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->