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Congress steps up attack on PM
New Delhi, Feb 13: Congress today stepped up attackon Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee charging him with `colluding with VHP in subverting law of the land` and alleged that the government`s application in the Supreme Court in the matter of Ayodhya was prompted by `bad intentions`.
New Delhi, Feb 13: Congress today stepped up attack
on Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee charging him with
"colluding with VHP in subverting law of the land" and alleged
that the government`s application in the Supreme Court in the
matter of Ayodhya was prompted by "bad intentions".
"Strategy of BJP and its affiliates like the VHP and RSS
have always been so designed as to advance their core communal
agenda by bringing Ayodhya issue in installments. Vajpayee
government is also party to the same strategy", party
spokesman S Jaipal Reddy told reporters.
Alleging that Atal Bihari Vajpayee was "colluding" with
VHP in subverting law of the land, he said that though
whatever is happening between the two sides was being
projected as a matter of negotiations, the fact of the matter
was that "both the NDA government and VHP have been
coordinating their efforts".
"Pravin Togadia has been pulled up not because he was
untruthful but because he was untimely in his utterances", he
said adding that the goal of the BJP and VHP was the same but
their tactical efforts may differ.
Referring to the government`s application on the
vacation of apex court`s order banning any kind of religious
activity in the 77 acres of land in Ayodhya acquired by the
government after the demolition of the disputed structure in
1992, he said this was intended to make available the land to
the VHP.
"This application itself was prompted by bad intentions. BJP is also interested in facilitating the process of the entire piece of land being made available to the VHP", he said.
Bureau Report
"This application itself was prompted by bad intentions. BJP is also interested in facilitating the process of the entire piece of land being made available to the VHP", he said.
Bureau Report