The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) had no special affinity with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said VHP general secretary Praveen Togadia on Sunday. If Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi party adopted pro-Hindu policies, the VHP might been extend support to it, he remarked.
Talking to mediapersons here, he defended the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat and said that the demand for his (Modi's) removal was unfounded. He described the violent incidents in Gujarat as a direct repercussion of the “hate psychosis unleashed by the madrassa culture” in a fairly large section of the Muslim population. He asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi why her party had maintained “absolute silence” when about 40,000 Hindus were killed in Kashmir.
On building the Ram temple at Ayodhya, he said the VHP had given an undertaking to abide by either the court orders or a negotiated settlement between the leaders of the contending communities.
The VHP, he said, proposed to launch a concerted campaign all over the country to clear the way for building the temple through an Act of parliament. In this connection, mahayagnas would be organised in each village of the country on the full moon day every month and people would recite prayers in memory of Lord Ram. In June, a conclave of saints would be organised under the auspices of the VHP's Marg Darshak Mandal to chalk out the future strategy for the construction of the temple.
About last month's fiasco on the
temple construction issue at Ayodhya, Mr Togadia said the VHP had enrolled
several lakh volunteers to proceed to Ayodhya but desisted from a showdown
to avert a largescale bloodbath of innocent people. On the role of the
VHP and the Bajrang Dal in the recent vandalism of the Orissa assembly,
he claimed that it was an act of outsiders and the VHP had demanded a judicial
inquiry into the incident.