Muslims ‘not substance of hate or vote bank: Modi

Kozhikode, Sep 25: In an endeavor to contact Muslims, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today told a BJP meet here that they are “not substance of scorn” nor if they be considered as “things of vote business sector” however ought to be dealt with as “your own”.

He summoned BJP ideologue Deendayal Upadhyay to make these remarks while tending to the BJP Council meeting here in Kerala, a state with generous Muslim populace, where the gathering is trying to grow its base.

He kept up that his administration’s central goal of ‘sabka sath, sabka vikas’ is not a political motto but rather a pledge to guarantee welfare of the last man in the general public.

In his discourse, Modi talked finally about secularism, adjusted and comprehensive development and requirement for appointive changes while paying tributes to Upadhyay on his 100th birth commemoration.

“Nowadays, the definition has been distored. Indeed, even patriotism is reviled nowadays,” he said.

While discussing life and commitment of Upadhyay, Modi cited him as saying, “don’t compensate nor censure Muslims.

Enable them. They are not things of vote business sector nor are they substance of disdain. Regard them as your own.”

He demanded that for BJP no one is an “outcast”.

At the finish of the two-day BJP conference, the Prime Minister followed the gathering’s excursion from the times of Jan Sangh and declared that “we never bargained with our belief system”.

He said if the BJP had traded off with the belief system, it could have accomplished power long back.