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DPCC chief, CM woo minorities

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Jai Prakash Agarwal on Monday said the United Progressive Alliance Government at the Centre and the Delhi Government were working towards welfare of minorities in an earnest effort to bring them into the mainstream.

Addressing a meeting of the minorities at the DPCC headquarters here, Mr. Agarwal said the Congress had initiated various projects and schemes for uplift of minorities and the results were beginning to show.

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said her party had taken various steps for the welfare, progress and educational advancement of minorities during its nine-year rule in the State.

She said the interest of minorities would be protected at any cost and many more projects would be initiated for the progress and development of minorities in the Capital.

The Chief Minister claimed that her government had taken several steps wherever the Muslim community was in large numbers for their welfare and for providing them all facilities for education and financial security of the girl child.

“The Government would earmark the necessary funds for development of those areas where the minorities are in a majority,” she added.

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