While DPCC president Sheila Dikshit announced a signature campaign urging the Government to implement the recommendations of the Srikrishna Commission, convention convenor Hasan Ahmed lambasted the Delhi BJP Government for ``failing to initiate any programme during its inglorious five-year rule''.

``The performance of the BJP has convinced the citizens of Delhi that they cannot expect any improvements, much less can be expected by the Muslim minority,'' said Ahmed. Among his seven resolutions was the problems of slum dwellers in the Walled City: ``In accordance with the decision of the previous Congress Government, the occupants of these houses should be made owners at a reserve price.''

Ahmed also said that Urdu medium should be provided in schools under the Delhi Administration, MCD and NDMC and centres for Muslimwomen should be set up to train them in handicrafts, among other vocations.

The convenor demanded the ``reconstitution of the Delhi Waqf Board in accordance with the Act'' and the shifting of the Central Haj Committee from Mumbai to Delhi.

Meanwhile Congress Working Committee (CWC) member Arjun Singh assured the minorities ``that there will be no occasion in the future for the Congress to apologise''.

Already 10,000 signatures have been collected to persuade the Government to implement the Srikrishna Commission report. CWC member Ghulam Nabi Azad said that the Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra ``has selectively accepted some recommendations, not hostile to it, and unabashedly termed the part pertaining to the indictment of Bal Thackeray as biased''.