Cong to hold sammelan today to woo Muslims

After Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) organised the party's minority or to be more exact Muslim convention a few weeks ago in Gandhinagar where Chief Minister Narendra Modi asked the party's Muslim supporters not to feel shy of identifying themselves as bha-ja-piya Muslims,it is now the turn of the Congress to woo the community as the December 2012 Assembly elections draws closer.

After Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) organised the party’s minority or to be more exact Muslim convention a few weeks ago in Gandhinagar where Chief Minister Narendra Modi asked the party’s Muslim supporters not to feel shy of identifying themselves as bha-ja-piya Muslims,it is now the turn of the Congress to woo the community as the December 2012 Assembly elections draws closer.

Unlike in the past when the party’s programmes were organised in the old city,the party has chosen a venue at Koba Circle,near Gandhinagar,to hold the Muslim sammelan on Sunday. The party invited several top Muslim leaders from across the country to mobilise the community. Former Rajya Sabha chairperson K Rahman Khan will preside over the meeting.

Sources in the Congress said party leadership is desperate to wrest power from BJP ruling Gujarat since 1995 and hence,it does not want to leave anything to chance this time around. Party had in the past also held sammelans of various castes.

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However,Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (minority cell) president Vazirkhan Pathan said there were elements,particularly in the BJP,that were misguiding the Muslims. But holding this programme,we want to tell that Muslims are secular. They are with secular Hindus and will vote for secular Hindu leaders.

He said the Muslim leaders across the state gathering at the sammelan would be informed about what the Congress-led UPA government had done for them and how the Narendra Modi government had been putting obstructions on schemes and projects for welfare of the community.

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