01-08-2006, 11:12 PM
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Bhopal, Jan 07: Holding the RSS and Hindu Mahasabha responsible for partition, senior Congress leader and Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh today claimed that the BJP would collapse like a pack of cards due to "its inner contradictions and hollow principles."
"Though Mohammed Ali Jinnah is considered the propounder of the two-nation theory, history is witness that Hindu Mahasabha and RSS were instrumental in projecting Hindus and Muslims as separate and claiming they cannot stay together," Singh said at a seminar on 'the real face of BJP' here.
"It is true that Jinnah took advantage of the two-nation theory when the country was about to get independence by seeking formation of Pakistan, but the first to conceptualise the division were Hindu Mahasabha and RSS," Singh said, accusing the Sangh of giving a wrong direction to history.
Hailing the role of Congress leaders, Singh said if they had given up their efforts to keep the country intact, India would have remained backward like Pakistan without experiencing development.
Ridiculing the BJP for "shedding tears for partition" and blaming the Congress for it, the Minister said that the Muslim population in India is much larger than that in Pakistan.
"They are here not due to helplessness or compulsion but because of an atmosphere of trust and confidence," Singh said adding that while accusing Congress of appeasement, BJP must realise "it is meant for our own people and countrymen."
Describing the BJP as a party suffering from inherent contraditions and hollow principles, Singh said "it is like a pack of cards and one cannot imagine how it will collapse. But someone has to blow the wind."
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Bhopal, Jan 07: Holding the RSS and Hindu Mahasabha responsible for partition, senior Congress leader and Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh today claimed that the BJP would collapse like a pack of cards due to "its inner contradictions and hollow principles."
"Though Mohammed Ali Jinnah is considered the propounder of the two-nation theory, history is witness that Hindu Mahasabha and RSS were instrumental in projecting Hindus and Muslims as separate and claiming they cannot stay together," Singh said at a seminar on 'the real face of BJP' here.
"It is true that Jinnah took advantage of the two-nation theory when the country was about to get independence by seeking formation of Pakistan, but the first to conceptualise the division were Hindu Mahasabha and RSS," Singh said, accusing the Sangh of giving a wrong direction to history.
Hailing the role of Congress leaders, Singh said if they had given up their efforts to keep the country intact, India would have remained backward like Pakistan without experiencing development.
Ridiculing the BJP for "shedding tears for partition" and blaming the Congress for it, the Minister said that the Muslim population in India is much larger than that in Pakistan.
"They are here not due to helplessness or compulsion but because of an atmosphere of trust and confidence," Singh said adding that while accusing Congress of appeasement, BJP must realise "it is meant for our own people and countrymen."
Describing the BJP as a party suffering from inherent contraditions and hollow principles, Singh said "it is like a pack of cards and one cannot imagine how it will collapse. But someone has to blow the wind."
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