New Delhi: Minority affairs minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi here on Tuesday said that here won't be any subsidy for Haj from this year. The minister claimed that despite the subsidy withdrawal, a record number of 1.75 lakh Muslims would undertake the pilgrimage this year from India.
Naqvi also said that the Saudi Arabian government has in principle agreed to allow Haj journey from India by ships and officials of the two countries will sit together to finalise the modalities.
Citing a host of measures for the welfare of minorities, Naqvi said, “This is part of our policy to empower minorities with dignity and without appeasement.”
The government has abolished the subsidy for Haj pilgrims in accordance with a Supreme Court order.
In fact, in 2012, when Congress was in power, a constitutional bench of the Supreme Court had directed that the Haj subsidy be done away with. The new policy came after the recommendations of a committee, who decided to do away with the Haj subsidy gradually.
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