New Delhi: Ahead of the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is going all out to woo minorities.
The Modi government is set to hold 'progress panchayats' with Muslim and Dalit citizens across the nation.
The first panchayat will be held in the Mewat area of Haryana and will be chaired by minorities affairs minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.
The aim of the panchayats is to dispel myths of the BJP being an upper caste party with an anti-minority agenda.
The BJP has said that Naqvi will travel to other states over the next three to four months to conduct the panchayats.
Congress spokesperson Meem Afzal has dismissed the strategy as pure vote bank politics.
Asadduddin owaisi, President of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, too has slammed the BJP saying that the party has been supressing Muslims for years.
“They are trying to make panchayats in the name of empowerment. Then why aren't they giving Muslims in Mumbai reservation for education despite the Bombay High Court's order?" asked Owaisi.
Owaisi also called BJP’s behaviour hypocritical.
Earlier, Rahul Gandhi went on a tour of Uttar Pradesh holding khat sabhas.
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