Ibrahim says: Look at how they point the finger at each other, while the killing has yet to stop!
** Hindus can’t be fundamentalists, say Sangh outfits**
Thursday, March 28, 2002
NEW DELHI: Close on the heels of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s advice to keep away from the Hindutva of the stagnant variety, Sangh Parivar outfits today asserted in one voice that “no true Hindu can be a fundamentalist”.
** “No true Hindu can be a fundamentalist,” the RSS spokesman M G Vaidya told PTI** when asked about Vajpayee’s statement last night that it would be better to “keep a distance” from the kind of Hindutva being practised by some now.
Asked whether Vajpayee was referring to Sangh Parivar outfits such as RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal, Vaidya said, “The question should be asked to the Prime Minister.”
Vaidya, however, said he did not find anything objectionable in the Prime Minister’s statement that Hindutva should not be equated with religion as it was “a way of life” which kept on evolving itself.
Speaking at a book release function here, Vajpayee had said when Swami Vivekananda spoke of Hinduism, nobody called him being communal. “But now, some people have defined Hindutva in such a manner that it is better to keep a distance from it.”
Meanwhile, reacting to Vajpayee’s statement, ** VHP senior vice president Acharya Giriraj Kishore said, “Hindu cannot be a fundamentalist, that is why we are a secular nation. Let him (Vajpayee) maintain a distance, if he considers anyone a fundamentalist.”**
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: A Hindu holy man, member of Hindu nationalist party Shiv Sena, participates in a protest near Parliament in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2001. The party members were protesting against the terrorist attacks on the United States. (AP Photo/Amit Bhargava)
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: Police officers try to stop an activist of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, or VHP, a Hindu nationalist party, wielding a trident during a demonstration before entering into the Legislative assembly building in Bhubhaneshwar, eastern India, Saturday, March 16, 2002. More than 500 VHP activists, who wanted to submit a memorandum to the state chief minister on Ayodhya issue, stormed into the assembly building of Orissa state and ransacked many wings of the two storied building including chambers of several ministers. (AP Photo/Shivji Moulik)
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: An Indian Hindu rioter brandishes a sword in the western Indian city Ahmedabad March 1, 2002. Troops arrived in India’s riot-torn western state to crush religious violence that has killed more than 190 people in two days, the worst communal bloodshed in a decade. (Arko Datta/Reuters)
** RSS a terrorist organisation
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New Delhi, March 28. (UNI): Shankaracharya Swami Adhok Sahajanand Devthirathji Maharaj of Puri ** today accused the RSS of being a ``terrorist and separatist organisation’’ **
and said those responsible for the communal carnage in Gujarat should be punished.
Condemning the reign of terror unleashed in Gujarat following the Godhra carnage, the controversial Shankaracharya told reporters here that the Prime Minister and the Government were incompetent as they failed to check the violence in time.
``The elements of Sangh Parivar should stop this religious hypocracy. All those responsible for the heinous crime should be punished.‘’
** The Shankaracharya said killing and burning alive people and attacking their religious places was not allowed in any religion. ``It is not religion, but crime.** It has broken hearts and caused pain to thousands of people.‘’
In a joint statement with Archbishop Vincent M Concessao, the Shankaracharya demanded that those involved in vandalism and terrorism of any kind, should be immediately brought to book.
Both the religious heads also expressed apprehension that POTA could be detrimental to the interests of minorities who were already under attack and pressure from some fundamentalist quarters. They called on all people of goodwill to come forward to bring peace and harmony in the country.
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