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Mamata has betrayed Muslims on Urdu: Rights
group
Monday February 13, 2012 10:54:18 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata:
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has betrayed the
Muslims by not keeping her election promise of introducing Urdu as
the second official language in the entire state, an official of a
rights group said Monday.
"Mamata Banerjee had promised in 2009 that if her party is elected
in 2011 then she will introduce Urdu as the second official
language of the state. But it has been more than eight months but
no such step has been taken," said Shamim Ahmed,
national-in-charge and international convener, International Human
Rights Protection Association.
Ahmed told reporters here that the state government's decision of
introducing Urdu as a second official language only in three
blocks and 13 municipalities was part of a divide-and-rule policy.
"If Urdu is recognised as the second official language in the
state, then it will lead to employment of Muslim youths. Now the
government is saying that Urdu will be recognised as the second
language only in three blocks and thirteen municipalities of the
state. This is nothing but betrayal," he said.
Ahmed said that states like Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh
and Bihar had already recognised Urdu as the second language.
"If these states can recognise Urdu as the second official
language then what is stopping the ruling Trinamool Congress, we
simply can't understand," he said.
Ahmed claimed that more than 10 percent of the population in the
state was Urdu-speaking.
"The Muslim community will be lose its faith and trust in the
government if the promise is not fulfilled," Ahmed said.
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