Muslims falsely implicated during UPA regime, not anymore, says Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

NEW DELHI: The Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has alleged that the UPA government failed to check ‘repeated false implication’ of Muslim youths in terror cases and added that not a single such case had come to light after the Narendra Modi government had come to power last May. He accused “power brokers” in the erstwhile government of siphoning away funds meant for minorities which had kept the latter below the poverty line.
“Minorities have a character that they are not secure. Earlier, every month, there was news that innocent Muslim youths have been caught in a terror case…there is a long list of such cases. But since the NDA assumed power, there is not even a single case where an innocent youth has been arrested in a false terror case,” Naqvi said at the annual conference of state minorities commissions.

Ironically, BJP and Narendra Modi, while in the opposition, had strongly attacked then home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde when the latter wrote to all CMs, on September 30, 2013, asking states to ensure no member of the minority community was wrongfully implicated in terror cases.

Shinde had asked for action against cops who wrongly implicated minorities in terror cases.