Arif Khan: Narasimha Rao said if Muslims want to stay in gutter, let them
(WorldNews India)

DURING HIS speech in Lok Sabha Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi quoted a former Congress leader as having said that it was not the duty of their party to uplift Muslims and `if they want to lie in the gutter let them be`. He did not name the leader. But soon, the phones started ringing at the residence of Arif Mohammed Khan, a former four-time MP who was a Minister of State in the Rajiv Gandhi government until 1986 when he resigned over its stand on the Shah Bano case. Advertising Speaking to The Indian Express, Khan said he took `a minute or two` to recall that comment. `I think what he (Modi) did was right because it exposes the intention behind all those actions, which were basically...