There is a significant decline in communal incidents in the the NDA government’s tenure of about 32 months and no major communal incident occurred during this period, he said.
The Narendra Modi-led government’s “empowerment without appeasement” policy has created an atmosphere where minorities are also becoming part of the development process, he said.
To buttress his point, the minister said the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) received 2,638 complaints in 2013-14. During the next fiscal, the number of complaints came down to 1,995.
The Commission received 1,974 complaints in 2015-16 and until December 31, 2016, has obtained 1,288 grievances.
Most of these complaints were related to individual disputes.
