Former Union Minister Sushma Swaraj makes a point while talking to former Member of Parliament Satya Pal Jain...

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Former union minister Sushma Swaraj makes a point while talking to former Member of Parliament Satya Pal Jain at the Chandigarh Press Club on Saturday. [Image Courtesy — The Tribune]

Jain's appeal to Muslims

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CHANDIGARH, May 21 — Mr Satya Pal Jain, local member of the dissolved Lok Sabha, has appealed to the Muslims and members of others minorities to strengthen the hands of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. He assured them that the BJP-led government would work for the welfare and betterment of the minorities in general and the Muslims in particular. He was speaking at a function held at the Sector 45 mosque here last evening.
Mr Jain said that in 50 years after Independence, leaders of many political parties had tried to garner the maximum Muslim votes but without doing anything for the community as a whole. Muslims continued to be in poverty and their children were not getting education at all. He said that the BJP-led government at the Centre did not believe in religious discrimination.
He further said that during the 13-month BJP rule, there was not even a single Hindu-Muslim clash anywhere and members of both communities celebrated festivals like Divali, Id, Holi and Ramzan together.