State neglecting minority community: MP opposition leader

Bhopal: Leader of the Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly Ajay Singh today said that the Centre should direct the BJP-led Madhya Pradeh government to implement schemes for the welfare of minorities without any discrimination.

Ajay Singh said that there were a number of things during the BJP rule which showed that the state government was not interested in the welfare of minorities.

He exemplified his point saying that it was announced in the Assembly that the state government would not accept recommendations of the Sachar Committee."If this was not the violation of minority rights, then what is it," he said.

Singh said that the Centre had given its approval for the opening of branches of the Aligarh Muslim University in West Bengal, Kerala, Maharashtra, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.

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