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NEW DELHI, SEPT 14: The Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee8217;s minority convention organised at the Talkatora Stadium on Sunday was a sign of things to come in the impending Assembly elections.
While DPCC president Sheila Dikshit announced a signature campaign urging the Government to implement the recommendations of the Srikrishna Commission, convention convenor Hasan Ahmed lambasted the Delhi BJP Government for 8220;failing to initiate any programme during its inglorious five-year rule8221;.
8220;The performance of the BJP has convinced the citizens of Delhi that they cannot expect any improvements, much less can be expected by the Muslim minority,8221; said Ahmed. Among his seven resolutions was the problems of slum dwellers in the Walled City: 8220;In accordance with the decision of the previous Congress Government, the occupants of these houses should be made owners at a reserve price.8221;
Ahmed also said that Urdu medium should be provided in schools under the Delhi Administration, MCD and NDMC and centres for Muslimwomen should be set up to train them in handicrafts, among other vocations.
The convenor demanded the 8220;reconstitution of the Delhi Waqf Board in accordance with the Act8221; and the shifting of the Central Haj Committee from Mumbai to Delhi.
Meanwhile Congress Working Committee CWC member Arjun Singh assured the minorities 8220;that there will be no occasion in the future for the Congress to apologise8221;.
Already 10,000 signatures have been collected to persuade the Government to implement the Srikrishna Commission report. CWC member Ghulam Nabi Azad said that the Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra 8220;has selectively accepted some recommendations, not hostile to it, and unabashedly termed the part pertaining to the indictment of Bal Thackeray as biased8221;.
