In the light of a series of disconcerting developments in the State pertaining to Minorities, the community is living in fear, senior Congress member in the Legislative Council Nazeer Ahmed said on Wednesday, urging the Government to clarify its stand on Minorities.
“We want to live in peace and give us an opportunity to do so. The issues of love jihad, the anti-conversion Bill among other things are making us feel that you (Government) are discriminating. The latest is the issue of the campaign against halal meat. More than 90% of meat exporters in the country are non-Muslims and they export halal meat,” he said during a discussion in the Legislative Council. The Congress member said, “We have nothing to do with the partition. We were born after 1947 and are living here.”
Mr. Ahmed said: “If you want to discriminate, state openly that we are second class citizens. We can have a debate on that if you state your stand clearly. We are living in a state of fear and wake up every morning with anxiety.”
