01-18-2006, 07:53 AM
VHP to create 50 million-strong 'Hindu vote bank'
Vadodara | December 22, 2005 10:43:16 PM IST
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) today resolved to create an independent ''Hindu
Vote Bank'' of 50 million dedicated Hindus in the country to defeat the minority
appeasement policy and pave the way for a Hindu rashtra.
The organisation also decided to hold the third Vishwa Hindu Sammelan at Prayag
in the last week of February 2007, and finalise the direct action programmes for
the proposed nation-wide Ram Janmabhoomi movement, if the Centre failed to bring
a legislation to resolve the Ram Mandir issue by then.
The ''biggest ever'' three-day Sammelan scheduled to start from February 27,
2007, would be attended by Hindu representatives from 100,000 villages in India
and over 100 foreign countries.
Briefing newspersons after the three-day VHP Kendriya Pranyasi Mandal (Board of
Directors) meeting, which concluded at the Sokhda Swaminarayan temple near here
this evening, VHP International General Secretary Praveen Togadia said the
Mandal had finalised a 14- point ''Hindu charter of demands'' to use the vote
bank in elections only for those political parties and candidates who would
fully subscribe to those demands and support Hindutva in letter and spirit.
A resolution passed at the highest decision making body of the VHP said creation
of the Hindu vote bank was necessary to protect the interests and other rights
of 85 crore Hindus, who were being ''neglected'' and ''insulted'' by the
political parties and their leaders for their narrow political gain.
The 14-point Hindu charter of demands included a Central legislation permitting
construction of temples at Ayodhya, Kashi and Mathura, ban on cow slaughter, law
against conversion and Islamic terrorism, implementation of a uniform civil code
and declaration of all Hindu math temples as autonomous bodies
Vadodara | December 22, 2005 10:43:16 PM IST
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) today resolved to create an independent ''Hindu
Vote Bank'' of 50 million dedicated Hindus in the country to defeat the minority
appeasement policy and pave the way for a Hindu rashtra.
The organisation also decided to hold the third Vishwa Hindu Sammelan at Prayag
in the last week of February 2007, and finalise the direct action programmes for
the proposed nation-wide Ram Janmabhoomi movement, if the Centre failed to bring
a legislation to resolve the Ram Mandir issue by then.
The ''biggest ever'' three-day Sammelan scheduled to start from February 27,
2007, would be attended by Hindu representatives from 100,000 villages in India
and over 100 foreign countries.
Briefing newspersons after the three-day VHP Kendriya Pranyasi Mandal (Board of
Directors) meeting, which concluded at the Sokhda Swaminarayan temple near here
this evening, VHP International General Secretary Praveen Togadia said the
Mandal had finalised a 14- point ''Hindu charter of demands'' to use the vote
bank in elections only for those political parties and candidates who would
fully subscribe to those demands and support Hindutva in letter and spirit.
A resolution passed at the highest decision making body of the VHP said creation
of the Hindu vote bank was necessary to protect the interests and other rights
of 85 crore Hindus, who were being ''neglected'' and ''insulted'' by the
political parties and their leaders for their narrow political gain.
The 14-point Hindu charter of demands included a Central legislation permitting
construction of temples at Ayodhya, Kashi and Mathura, ban on cow slaughter, law
against conversion and Islamic terrorism, implementation of a uniform civil code
and declaration of all Hindu math temples as autonomous bodies