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Mann blasts BJP on reprisal
terrorism issue
WSN Network
JALANDHAR:
Mounting
a strong attack on ultra Hindu rightist party BJP, SAD(Amritsar)
president Simranjit Singh Mann has said the BJP always talked of
Sikh terrorists and Islamic terrorism and jihad and what not but was
now feeling very touchy over the term Hindu Terrorism.
He said the
protestation of BJP leaders like L.K. Advani and Venkaiah Naidu in
this context were examples of hypocrisy. Mann said the entire
country saw how parties like the BJp and the Congress painted the
Sikhs as terrorists. He said when a ban can be imposed on minority
organizations allegedly involved in any anti-national activities,
why the same could not be done in case of Hindu organisations
involved in similar activities.
He said these
organizations were now on the defensive and in fact collecting money
to help Sadhvi Pragya Thakur and the other accused in the blasts.
The alleged involvement of Lt Col Shrikant Purohit in the Malegaon
and other blasts has proved that the cells of the BJP and the RSS
had penetrated the Indian Army, which was a serious matter for the
minorities in the country, he added. He said the government should
order an inquiry to weed out more sleeper cells in the forces so
that individuals owing allegiance to right wing Hindutva forces
should be exposed and the damage contained.
Mann said the
Centre and Punjab should be made accountable for smuggling of arms
and ammunition and drugs from Pakistan into the state despite
surveillance of so many security agencies along the Punjab border
with Pakistan.
19 November
2008
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