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The Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, today said the Centre was taking up the matter of atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh with the Government there.
At a book release function here, Mr. Advani said Bangladesh was trying to emulate Pakistan — though in a different manner — to get rid of the minorities in its country.
Quoting from the speeches of the former Prime Minister, Morarji Desai, he said: "Pakistan got rid of its minority problem by getting rid of the minorities themselves". Slowly the same was coming true in Bangladesh.
Mr. Advani justified the demand for repeal of the Illegal Migrants Detention Tribunal Act in Assam. He said the Congress had enacted it under pressure for a specific purpose and alleged that the Act was deliberately framed in such a manner so as to subvert its very purpose. "Such duplicity and dishonesty on the question of demography never helps the cause of social harmony and national integration," he observed.
Commenting on conversion, Mr. Advani said he was opposed to forcible conversion as it was neither in the spirit of true religion nor in the long term interests of a nation.
Referring to the tragic Partition
and the two-nation theory, Mr. Advani said the country did not face the
prospect of any further division.
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