The Hindu : Hindutva politics will be replicated, says VHP

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Saturday, Dec 28, 2002

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Hindutva politics will be replicated, says VHP

Pune Dec. 27. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad today said that Hindutva politics, which was in full play during the just-concluded elections to the Gujarat Assembly, would be replicated in the Assembly elections of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi next year.

``The Gujarat elections have proved that Muslim vote-bank politics will not continue in the country. Only politics of the Hindu vote will continue. It will work in Rajasthan, it will work in Madhya Pradesh as well as in Delhi,'' the VHP leader, Pravin Togadia, said here. ``In Gujarat, we established an organisational network of one crore people in 10,000 villages and the same pattern will be repeated in other States too.'' About fears of possible provocation among members of the minority community, Mr. Togadia said ``don't use the word minority community for them.

We don't have any problems with minorities like Parsis, Christians and others... the problem is only with the jehadi elements in the Muslim community who breed fundamentalism. We don't have a problem with those Muslims who do not support jehad.''

The VHP would go full steam to press for the construction of Ram temple at Ayodhya as it would provide a firm foundation for a "Hindu society." Its "dharam sansad" would spell out an "action plan" to achieve this objective, at its meeting in New Delhi from February 22 to 25, the VHP senior vice-president, Giriraj Kishore, told reporters on the sidelines of the Parishad's crucial meeting.

Expressing concern over growing terrorism, Acharya Kishore said the situation had become ``explosive'' not only in India but all over the world. Pointing to the role of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence in spreading terrorism, he said it had targeted Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh and other parts of the country. He urged the Centre to take "bold" steps such as destroying terrorist training camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

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