[Marxistindia] On Haj Subsidy

[news from the cpi(m)]

January 17, 2018

 

Press Statement

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

 

On Haj Subsidy

 

The Union Government has decided to abruptly stop the Haj subsidy for
pilgrims' travel, though the Supreme Court had given a verdict in 2012 that
this subsidy should be phased out over a ten year period.  The sudden
withdrawal of the subsidy seems arbitrary and motivated by other
considerations.  

 

As per the secular principle of the State, the CPI(M) is not for State
subsidy, or, funding of  religious pilgrimages undertaken by individuals
whichever religion they belong to.  Hence, there should be no Central or
state government funding, as it exists today, of providing subsidies and
grants for individuals to go on religious pilgrimages.  

 

 

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