BHOPAL: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader PraveenTogadia on Sunday said that the BJP should not announce a prime ministerial candidate before the 2014 general elections. Togadia said that such an attempt would weaken the BJP and the NDA alliance. Announcing the name of the prime ministerial candidate could work as a strategy in favour of the UPA parties. It could split both the BJP and its NDA alliance partners. Best would be for the BJP to democratically elect its leader after the elections are won,'' Togadia said speaking to reporters here.
Asked if the VHP would support the BJP in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Togadia explained: The VHP neither supports nor opposes any political party or person. The VHP's one and only intention is to strengthen Hindutva. However, we are not in favour of political parties that hit-out and defame Hindus.''
Togadia argued that the recent controversy over Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's comment on Hindu terrorism is one such instance of how greed of minority vote-bank politics makes political parties to give statements that work in favour of Pakistan.''
In the present day, rebellion against Hindus is equated with secularism. The Congress party should press home minister Shinde to withdraw his statement which might work out as an advantage to Pakistan on the international forum. And voters should start contemplating on such remarks of the Congress and democratically give a fitting reply to such allegatuions,'' he added.
Meanwhile, the VHP stands firm on the issue of the disputed Bhojshala structure in Dhar in Madhya Pradesh. It could be yet another trying law and order situation as Basant Panchami fall on Friday February 15 this year. Bhojshala belongs to Hindus and Muslims have nothing to do with it. The VHP will keep up the struggle for Bhojshala. There will be no compromise on the issue.''
Bhojshala is an 11th century Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) protected monument in Dhar town, 350 km south of Bhopal, which Hindus believe is a temple of goddess Waghdevi (Saraswati) while Muslims treat it as a mosque. In 2003, the VHP started a movement claiming the structure was a university established by Raja Bhoj with a temple of the goddess of learning inside the premises.
That year, the law courts opened the gates of the structure for Hindus to worship on Tuesdays and Basant Panchami while directing that Muslims could also hold namaz on Fridays. This year Basant Panchami falls on a Friday, the day for offering Namaz. A similar situation was witnessed in 2006 when Basant Panchami fell on a Friday and there were violent clashed between the VHP-RSS combine and the state police in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh. The VHP was uncompromising on Bhojshala then and remains so now.
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