NEW DELHI-
India’s new Hindu nationalist premier Narendra Modi on Thursday rejected angry calls to dismiss a government minister whose derogatory comment about religious minorities has caused uproar in parliament.
India’s upper house has been paralysed by opposition protests since Niranjan Jyoti issued the remarks.
Jyoti, a junior minister in the new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, has since apologised for the comment, seen as an attack on religious minorities in the majority-Hindu nation.
But opposition parties have continued to demand her dismissal, and on Thursday Modi sought to stem the political fallout by urging lawmakers to accept her apology.
“This minister is new, she has entered parliament for the first time (at the last election)… She has apologised,” Modi said.
“I request the House to continue with its work in the interests of the country.”
The BJP was accused during this year’s general election campaign of trying to polarise votes along religious lines.
Hindus make up 80 percent of India’s 1.2-billion population while Muslims total 13.4 percent, according to census figures. Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs and other religions account for the rest.
Party president Amit Shah faces charges of inflaming religious tensions with a campaign speech he gave in the northern district of Muzaffarnagar, which was hit last year by deadly Hindu-Muslim riots.
Modi, who led his party to a landslide victory in national elections in May, was himself accused of failing to curb 2002 anti-Muslim riots that claimed at least 1,000 lives when he was chief minister of Gujarat state.
He has always rejected the accusations, and India’s Supreme Court found no evidence to prosecute him.
Jyoti, minister for food processing, made her comment at a rally in New Delhi, where local elections will be held early next year.
A spokesman for the opposition Congress party, Meem Afzal, described her statements as “an abuse to democracy”, according to the Press Trust of India (PTI).
“Though she has apologised, we know that such an apology is nothing. She should feel ashamed and resign,” Afzal said
Why should she resigns she wasn’t hypocrite enough to,hide her true sentiments like other bjps ministers.After all she won ministership in modi sarkar on this base.
In the festival of Gadhimai — goddess of power — on November 28-29 ‘14, held every 5 years in Nepal, hundreds of thousands buffaloes and other animals were slaughtered over two days. India needs to slaughter Americans by the millions, by exploding its nuclear warheads already emplaced in Washington and New York with a warning that additional U.S. cities will be similarly destroyed if there is any retaliation or sign of retaliation.
INDIA’S NATIONAL SECURITY REQUIRES IMMEDIATE DESTRUCTION OF ALL CHURCHES IN INDIA AND KILLING TRAITORS LIKE MODI WHO COLLABORATE WITH INDIA’S AMERICAN ENEMIES. ALL CASES AGAINST INDIAN ‘GOD MEN’ MUST BE DROPPED.
In the festival of Gadhimai — goddess of power — on November 28-29 ‘14, held every 5 years in Nepal, hundreds of thousands buffaloes and other animals were slaughtered over two days. India needs to slaughter Americans by the millions, by exploding its nuclear warheads already emplaced in Washington and New York with a warning that additional U.S. cities will be similarly destroyed if there is any retaliation or sign of retaliation.
INDIA’S NATIONAL SECURITY REQUIRES IMMEDIATE DESTRUCTION OF ALL CHURCHES IN INDIA AND KILLING TRAITORS LIKE MODI WHO COLLABORATE WITH INDIA’S AMERICAN ENEMIES. ALL CASES AGAINST INDIAN ‘GOD MEN’ MUST BE DROPPED. IndiasLegitimateRulerSatishChandraDOTblogspotDOTcom
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