Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi resigns as Union Minister of Minority Affairs
India | Jul 06, 2022, 05:38 PM ISTMukhtar Abbas Naqvi, a senior BJP leader, is also the Deputy Leader of Rajya Sabha. His term as MP in the Upper House is set to end on Thursday.
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, a senior BJP leader, is also the Deputy Leader of Rajya Sabha. His term as MP in the Upper House is set to end on Thursday.
Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that the campaign will be launched on June 21 to create awareness on Covid vaccination programme in rural and remote areas of the country and to "crush and curb" the rumours and apprehensions, being spread by some vested interests regarding the ongoing drive.
In an interview to PTI, Naqvi said that in a democracy everyone has a right to have an opinion and liberty to approach courts. However, he asserted that in an ideal scenario attempts should not be made to entangle the decades-old complex issue which has been solved by a unanimous verdict of the Supreme Court.
Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday said the term minority doesn't denote only Muslims and that there are five other notified minorities: Jains, Buddhists, Christians, Parsis and Sikhs.
Accusing Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress of trying to turn the state into a hub of "misrule and hooliganism", Naqvi said it was possible that the administration was not fully cooperating with the EC to maintain law and order during the ongoing Lok Sabha polls.
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