New Delhi:
A man who shouted about non-functioning schemes moments after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's speech at an event in Delhi was thrown out by policemen who clamped his mouth to silence him.
At the inauguration of the National Waqf Development Corporation, Dr Singh had just finished speaking when Faheem Baig, a social worker, got up and started shouting that government schemes for minorities never reached the beneficiaries. Congress president Sonia Gandhi was also seated next to the Prime Minister.
"We don't need new schemes when the government cannot ensure the implementation of the existing ones," he said.
(Watch video here)"I have written 150 letters to you but my voice is not being heard," he said before cops clamped a hand on his mouth and escorted him out of the conference hall at Vigyan Bhawan.
The Prime Minister later asked Minority Affairs Minister K. Rahman Khan, who was also present at the event, to meet Mr Baig and "hear his views and consider his petition"
The protestor told reporters, "I have not broken any law. I have tried to strengthen our democracy. No scheme in my area, which is in north-east Delhi, have received any money from the Prime Minister's fund," said Mr Baig.