Narendra Modi recalled a statement by former PM Manmohan Singh in which he called for the first right/claim of minorities especially, Muslims, over national resources. From the infamous reversal of the progressive Shah Bano verdict that disenfranchised divorced Muslim women from claiming maintenance to acquiring the unique distinction of being among the first countries to ban The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie – the Congress has never shied away from brazen appeasement.