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Come clean on religious conversions: BJP tells Akhilesh
Lucknow, Feb 3
The Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) Tuesday demanded compliance of the recommendations made by the
State Minorities Commission with regard to alleged religious conversions
in Agra and Aligarh.
Based on a report submitted by panel chief
Shakeel Ahmed to the state government, state BJP spokesman Vijay Bahadur
Pathak said reference to "intelligence failure" in these incidents is
an indictment of the chief minister.
"The government and the
chief minister must explain why did the intelligence agencies fail when
such a thing was taking place in the state," the BJP leader said while
demanding that the Samajwadi Party (SP) government should set its house
in order rather than pointing fingers at the saffron camp.
For
everything bad happening in the state, Akhilesh Yadav has a penchant for
attacking the BJP though on all occasions officials and other
authorities have only pointed at failures of various wings of the
government itself, he told IANS.
The spokesman also demanded that
instead of pointing accusing fingers at the BJP and others, the
government should make public the recommendations of the minority panel
and act upon them.
He also referred to the statement made by SP
chief and former UP chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav in parliament
that no conversions had taken place at Agra or any other place in the
state.