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Muslim CM for U.P.: Paswan

`Dalits, Muslims most backward'

MEERUT: After his proposal for a Muslim Chief Minister in Bihar fell flat last year, Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan has come up with a similar idea for Uttar Pradesh.

"It is necessary for Uttar Pradesh to have a Muslim Chief Minister for the community has been the most cheated and down-trodden lot in the State," he told reporters here.

Paswan had in May last year projected a Muslim Chief Ministerial candidate for a "secular" dispensation in Bihar on his `Dalit-Alpsankhyak Adhikar Yatra'.

He said Dalits and Muslims were the most backward communities in the country and the main purpose of the LJP's `yatra' was to make them aware of their rights.

"I am keen to unite the Muslims and Dalits and form a new India where there is no unemployment, free education for all up to the higher secondary level and fixed deposit of Rs 25,000 for the girl child at birth," he said yesterday.

The Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister claimed that the people of the State were "fed up with the cheats" and he also took a snipe at Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati.

"Even when a Dalit woman was the Chief Minister, she did nothing for them. The BSP has turned into a Brahmin party and has nothing to do with Dalits," Paswan said in a reference to the Brahmin `Sammelans' of Mayawati. - PTI

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