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Goa plans advisory body on Muslim, Christian
issues
Monday April 02, 2012 09:30:52 PM,
IANS
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Panaji: The Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP)-led coalition government in Goa is planning to set up a
minority advisory council, which will sift through the demands of
Muslims and Christians, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said here
Monday.
According to him, the council would be set up by May.
"We should be in a position to set up an advisory council in May.
It will have members of the Catholic and Muslim communities,"
Parrikar said Monday.
"The council will meet twice a month with the government, and
advise on matters related to minority communities," Parrikar said.
The simple majority to the BJP in the 40-member Goa legislative
assembly in the April elections have been credited to a social
engineering exercise by the chief minister, who wooed the state's
26 percent Christian minority ahead of the March polls.
The BJP, which contested 28 seats, had fielded six Christian
candidates and backed two other Christian independent candidates.
The party has already allotted two cabinet berths to the
Catholics, and has also promised to induct an independent minority
legislator in the first round of expansion.
The BJP now aims to focus its attention on the nearly seven
percent strong Muslim population, who have traditionally kept the
saffron party at an arm's length.
In an emotional pitch to Muslim community members at a public
function in Panaji last week, Parrikar said the community could
"kick" the BJP out of power after five years if he did not deliver
good governance, adequate jobs and "respect" to them.
"In five years I assure you not just a good government and
representative jobs, most importantly, I assure you that the
government will accord the community a sense of respect. If the
BJP does a good job, vote for us, if we don't, kick us out,"
Parrikar said.
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