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NDF accuses BJP of communalising Census report

By Our Staff Reporter

KOLLAM, SEPT. 14. The general secretary of the National Development Front (NDF), Nazaruddin Elamaram, has said that the intensity of the Bhartiya Janata Party's (BJP) inherent anti-Muslim agenda can be gauged from its attempts to communalise, spread panic and make political gains out of a debatable growth index in the Muslim population of the country.

He was talking to The Hindu here on Tuesday. When asked for the NDF's reaction to the BJP demand for a two-child family in the wake of the religion data report released by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, Mr. Elamaram said that targeting the Muslim community appears to be the only ideology of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar bandwagon.

He said that while the population figure is a social issue, population control becomes a religious issue in the Muslim community. Since the NDF does not interfere with religious aspects, the organisation does not wish to pass any comment either on the data provided by the Census Commissioner or on the demands raised by the BJP.

He said that the NDF policy is to ignore such postures of the BJP.

In order to keep the party afloat, the BJP leaders have no option but to target the Muslim community. They have been doing it for years and will continue doing so.

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