Modi govt. empowered minorities through welfare: BJP State chief

HYDERABADBJP Telangana president N. Ramchander Rao accused the Congress of treating minorities as a “vote bank” and engaging in divisive politics, while claiming that the Narendra Modi government had ensured equal access to welfare and development programmes for minority communities.Addressing the BJP State Minority Morcha executive meeting in Mahabubnagar, Mr. Ramchander Rao alleged that the Congress had failed to address the concerns of minorities despite being in power for several decades. He appealed to Minority Morcha cadres to take the Union government’s welfare initiatives to people at the village and mandal levels.He claimed that 22% to 37% of the beneficiaries of various Central government welfare schemes, including the Mudra scheme, belonged to minority communities.Mr. Ramchander