NC sees discrimination against Muslims

By Shujaat Bukhari

JAMMU, FEB. 12. The ruling National Conference, led by the Chief Minister, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, today lambasted the Central Government for adopting ``discriminatory attitude'' towards Muslims not only in the rest of the country but in the State as well.

Intervening during an obituary reference to Gujarat earthquake victims moved in the House, the party gave vent to its fury. The NC MLA from Hazratbal, Mr. Mohammad Sayeed Akhoon, accused the Central Government of adopting discriminatory attitude in dealing with massacres in the State. While six Sikhs were killed in Mehjoor Nagar, several Union Ministers had visited the place but none took notice of the roasting alive of 15 Muslims in Rajouri. ``Is the Muslim blood so cheap?''

He said such a discrimination against Muslims would further complicate the problems in the State. Congress members too supported Mr. Akhoon.

In the Upper House, the NC provincial president, Mr. Ghulam Nabi Shaheen, resented the alleged discrimination in distribution of relief supplies to Muslims in the quake-hit Gujarat. ``It is disgusting and painful to know that even in such a major tragedy Muslims are being discriminated.''

Mr. Shaheen further said hundreds of NC activists had died for the country. Even when the then Power Minister, G.H. Bhat, was killed in a landmine blast no one from Delhi came, thus discriminating and dividing people on communal lines. He warned that if this attitude continued the country would disintegrate.

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