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Swamy demands Vajpayee's resignation
By Our Special Correspondent
CHENNAI
Feb. 28
The Janata Party president, Subramanian Swamy, has demanded the resignation of the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, as a ``necessary step to save the country from sliding further into a communal holocaust''.
In a statement issued here, Dr. Swamy noted that Mr. Vajpayee's appeal yesterday to the VHP to call off the Ayodhya temple building campaign was ill-timed and rewarded the perpetrators of the massacre. "This will further encourage Islamic terror and is a shameful and unacceptable capitulation to fundamentalists''.
He said the VHP campaign had to be called off because ``it is illegal and not because 1,500-strong Muslim terrorists waylay 55 helpless and trapped women and children in rail bogies in Godhra''. Dr. Swamy added that no leader could guarantee ``security and secular order to minorities unless he can also ensure that Hindus, who are 85 per cent of the population, are equally secure and safe. There cannot be any double standards in implementing this principle''.
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