‘BJP won’t tolerate Hindu terror remarks’
24 Jan 2013 7:14 AM IST
Rajnath Singh began his new innings as the BJP president on Wednesday amid mounting organizational and electoral challenges for the party ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. Attacking the Congress for ‘ills of the country’ and said he was assuming his duties with a sense of responsibility. He declared that the BJP will hold countrywide protests from Thursday against home minister Sushilkumar Shinde's ‘Hindu terror’ remarks.
Protests and rallies would be held and effigies representing the UPA govt would be burnt by party workers to register their protest, the BJP's newly installed president said.
‘The recent statement of Shinde shows the government is not serious in its fight against terrorism,’ Rajnath Singh said, addressing party workers here. ‘Just for vote bank politics, they are poisoning the atmosphere of the nation with communalism. We condemn the statement,’ he said.
His comments were countered by senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, who said: ‘Rajnath Singh should say why he met Pragya Singh Thakur and Lt Col Purohit in jail, who were arrested in terror activities.’
Lt Col Prasad Purohit and Pragya Singh Thakur have been accused of orchestrating the Malegaon blasts of 2008. Shinde said Sunday: ‘Whether it is the BJP or RSS, their training camps are promoting Hindu terrorism.’ Home secretary RK Singh backed Shinde's comments.
‘After investigation into the blasts in Samjhauta Express, at Mecca Masjid and at Ajmer Sharif, we have 10 names of those who were associated with the RSS at some point or the other,’ Singh said on Tuesday.
However, Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi Tuesday said it was a ‘slip of the tongue’ by the home minister and the Congress did not believe in identifying terror with religion.
He announced that the BJP will hold countrywide protests Thursday against home minister Sushilkumar Shinde's ‘Hindu terror’ remarks.
Former Uttar Pradesh CM Rajnath Singh's unanimous election as the BJP president from 2013 to 2015 was announced by Thawarchand Gehlot, who was the returning officer for the party's presidential election.
Earlier Wednesday, the party's parliamentary board met in the morning and approved Rajnath Singh's candidature for the top party post. Rajnath Singh emerged as the presidential candidate on Tuesday following the BJP's desire to insulate itself from allegations of financial wrongdoing faced by incumbent Gadkari over investments in Purti group linked to him.
Protests and rallies would be held and effigies representing the UPA govt would be burnt by party workers to register their protest, the BJP's newly installed president said.
‘The recent statement of Shinde shows the government is not serious in its fight against terrorism,’ Rajnath Singh said, addressing party workers here. ‘Just for vote bank politics, they are poisoning the atmosphere of the nation with communalism. We condemn the statement,’ he said.
His comments were countered by senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, who said: ‘Rajnath Singh should say why he met Pragya Singh Thakur and Lt Col Purohit in jail, who were arrested in terror activities.’
Lt Col Prasad Purohit and Pragya Singh Thakur have been accused of orchestrating the Malegaon blasts of 2008. Shinde said Sunday: ‘Whether it is the BJP or RSS, their training camps are promoting Hindu terrorism.’ Home secretary RK Singh backed Shinde's comments.
‘After investigation into the blasts in Samjhauta Express, at Mecca Masjid and at Ajmer Sharif, we have 10 names of those who were associated with the RSS at some point or the other,’ Singh said on Tuesday.
However, Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi Tuesday said it was a ‘slip of the tongue’ by the home minister and the Congress did not believe in identifying terror with religion.
He announced that the BJP will hold countrywide protests Thursday against home minister Sushilkumar Shinde's ‘Hindu terror’ remarks.
Former Uttar Pradesh CM Rajnath Singh's unanimous election as the BJP president from 2013 to 2015 was announced by Thawarchand Gehlot, who was the returning officer for the party's presidential election.
Earlier Wednesday, the party's parliamentary board met in the morning and approved Rajnath Singh's candidature for the top party post. Rajnath Singh emerged as the presidential candidate on Tuesday following the BJP's desire to insulate itself from allegations of financial wrongdoing faced by incumbent Gadkari over investments in Purti group linked to him.
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