11-19-2006, 07:18 PM
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Pioneer.com
PT Bopanna | Bangalore
In a clear warning to the UPA Government at the Centre, senior BJP leader and <b>Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha LK Advani on Sunday warned that his party would resist tooth-and-nail any attempt to introduce religion-based reservations for Muslims</b>.
Addressing a rally here to mark 'Rashtriya Suraksha Sankalp Samavesh', Advani said: <b>"We strongly suspect that the UPA Government is going to use the Sachar Committee report to introduce religion-based reservations for Muslims. Some ministers in the UPA Government are openly talking about it. The BJP forewarns the Government that this move will be resisted tooth-and-nail."</b>
Advani cautioned the Muslim leadership against falling into the trap of "vote bank politics" of the Congress. He said the Muslim leadership should take the lead in imparting scientific education to the members of the community.
<b>Posing the question as to who was responsible for the socio-economic backwardness of a fairly large section of the Muslim community in India, Advani answered: "Who, if not those, who have ruled India for the longest period of time since Independence?"</b>
Attacking the <b>Congress leadership for going to the defence of Afzal Guru, prime accused in the attack on Parliament on December 13, 2001, he stated: "It was hard to imagine so pervert a manifestation of pseudo-secularism and vote bank politics."</b>
Questioning the silence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on the issue, the Leader of the Opposition remarked: <b>"It is the duty of the BJP to expose this dangerous nexus between the Congress, Communist parties, and every stripe of pseudo-secularists, who, in their hostility for the BJP, have gone to the extent of defending the perpetrators and conspirators of the December 13 attack."</b>
<b>Advani took a dig at outfits who termed as "uncivilised" the Supreme Court order to hang Afzal Guru, while keeping quiet on the order of the apex court which also pronounced that the killer in the Priyadarshini Mattoo case should be hanged. "While one is an action against an individual, the other is an assault on the sovereignty of the country,"</b> he pointed out.
The BJP rally was held at the Bangalore Palace Grounds. Among others who addressed the rally were party general secretary Ananth Kumar, Deputy Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and State BJP president Sadananda Gowda.
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Pioneer.com
PT Bopanna | Bangalore
In a clear warning to the UPA Government at the Centre, senior BJP leader and <b>Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha LK Advani on Sunday warned that his party would resist tooth-and-nail any attempt to introduce religion-based reservations for Muslims</b>.
Addressing a rally here to mark 'Rashtriya Suraksha Sankalp Samavesh', Advani said: <b>"We strongly suspect that the UPA Government is going to use the Sachar Committee report to introduce religion-based reservations for Muslims. Some ministers in the UPA Government are openly talking about it. The BJP forewarns the Government that this move will be resisted tooth-and-nail."</b>
Advani cautioned the Muslim leadership against falling into the trap of "vote bank politics" of the Congress. He said the Muslim leadership should take the lead in imparting scientific education to the members of the community.
<b>Posing the question as to who was responsible for the socio-economic backwardness of a fairly large section of the Muslim community in India, Advani answered: "Who, if not those, who have ruled India for the longest period of time since Independence?"</b>
Attacking the <b>Congress leadership for going to the defence of Afzal Guru, prime accused in the attack on Parliament on December 13, 2001, he stated: "It was hard to imagine so pervert a manifestation of pseudo-secularism and vote bank politics."</b>
Questioning the silence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on the issue, the Leader of the Opposition remarked: <b>"It is the duty of the BJP to expose this dangerous nexus between the Congress, Communist parties, and every stripe of pseudo-secularists, who, in their hostility for the BJP, have gone to the extent of defending the perpetrators and conspirators of the December 13 attack."</b>
<b>Advani took a dig at outfits who termed as "uncivilised" the Supreme Court order to hang Afzal Guru, while keeping quiet on the order of the apex court which also pronounced that the killer in the Priyadarshini Mattoo case should be hanged. "While one is an action against an individual, the other is an assault on the sovereignty of the country,"</b> he pointed out.
The BJP rally was held at the Bangalore Palace Grounds. Among others who addressed the rally were party general secretary Ananth Kumar, Deputy Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and State BJP president Sadananda Gowda.
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