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‘Hindu terrorism a bogey’

Chandigarh: Accusing the Congress of raising the bogey of “Hindu terrorism” for vote bank politics, BJP’s leader L.K. Advani on Sunday said “criminals should be punished irrespective of their religion.”

“The Congress is playing the politics of vote bank due to which terrorism is spreading in the country. For vote bank the Congress coined the term Hindu terrorism [after the Malegoan blast], but the BJP never used terminology like Muslim terrorism,” Mr. Advani said. He was addressing a ‘vijay sankalp (victory pledge) rally’ here.

“A terrorist is a terrorist... whosoever is the criminal he must be punished, irrespective of his religion,” the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate said. — PTI

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