Praising the birth commemoration of previous legislative leader of Kerala and previous Union priest, Sikandar Bakht, on Tuesday, the Gujarat BJP called for "greatest association of minorities" inside the party in the state.
Reacting to an inquiry on the main such festival, public general secretary of the BJP's minority morcha, Joshua Peter De Souza, said, "It is to feature that there is commitment of the minorities since the start (of the party). It isn't so this (minority relationship with BJP) is a recent fad. We need to show that there have been minorities ready for the party since the time the start."
Depicting Bakht as "one of the party's tallest minority pioneers", De Souza, a Roman Catholic from Goa, called upon minority morcha laborers to get whatever number individuals inside the party as could be expected under the circumstances. He said, "I can say that Gujarat is Bjp's, (Prime Minister Narendra) Modiji's home ground. Also, here, there ought to be most extreme association of minorities (inside BJP)."
Brought into the world on August 24, 1918, Sikandar Bakht was a political dissident who was with the Congress and at last turned into an establishing individual from the BJP in 1980. Bakht additionally filled in as a clergyman in Atal Bihari Vajapayee's administration and as Kerala Governor before his passing on February 23, 2004. He was additionally given the Padma Vibhushan.
Bakht's interfaith marriage was discussed. In April this year, it was refered to act as an illustration of "social concordance winning in Indian culture" by senior Gujarat Congress pioneer and Leader of Opposition in Gujarat Assembly, Paresh Dhanani, while contradicting a Bill got by the Gujarat government to check "love jihad" in the Assembly.
