Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 4

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They are pro-Muslims for formenting communal trouble, raising cosmetic concerns like increasing subsidies or preventing Rs 250 allowance for divorced muslim wives or making noise about Sachar this, Mandal that - whatever helped vote bank politics.

If they were pro-Muslim they would have been investing in education. Story from Kerala's muslim majority areas:

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Consider the figures: The Congress-led United Democratic Front government that governed between 1982 and 1986/1987 <b>cut its outlay on education from 37.2 per cent to 31.5 per cent</b> of the total budget; the successor Communist Party of India-Marxist-led Left Democratic Front government (1987 to 1990/1991) further <b>cut the outlay from 31.5 per cent to 27.45 per cent</b>; the UDF government that took over between 1991 to 1994/1995 <b>sliced the budget from 27.45 per cent to 26.67 per cent</b>; and the LDF government of 1995 to 2000 <b>further slashed the outlay from 26.67 per cent to 22.56 per cent</b>.

"Each government spends less and less on education -- just when the demand for facilities, for colleges, for increased seats in many more streams, is growing," U P Yahya Khan, a Farookh College professor and one of the delegates to a community conference on education, points out.

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The situation is seen to be so critical that the Ittihadul Shuban lil Mujahiddin (ISM), the activist youth wing of the Kerala-based Islamic reformist movement Nadwath ul-Mujahiddin, last August convened a two-day conference of educationists in Thalassery, Kannur district, to discuss the dimensions of the problem and to try and identify solutions.
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