Looks like these days extremists are having field day. On one side is Danish cartoon and here is next one. I hope Hindu personal law Board doesnt have any popular support. Sounds like a cheap attempt to get publicity. http://ia.rediff.com/news/2006/feb/23mf.htm?q=np&file=.htm
Hindu Law Board offers Rs 51 cr for killing M F Hussain
February 23, 2006 01:05 IST
The Hindu Personal Law Board on Wednesday announced a Rs 51 crore reward for eliminating artist M F Hussain. Meanwhile, a Congress minority cell leader offered Rs 11 lakh to any ‘patriot’ to chop off the painter’s hands for hurting Hindu sentiments.
“Anyone who kills Hussain for making obscene paintings of goddess Sarswati and Bharat Mata, the Danish cartoonist, those in the German company printing pictures of Ram and Krishna on tissue paper and the French filmmaker desecrating Lord Shiva will be given Rs 51 crore in cash,” Ashok Pandey, board president, said in a statement in Lucknow.
“Peace will not prevail on earth unless such people are eliminated,” he added.
Madhya Pradesh Congress committee minority cell vice-chairman Akthar Baig, in a statement in Indore, said the painter had ‘played with the sentiments of the people and tried to disrupt communal harmony in the past by painting nude pictures of Hindu gods and goddess and now of Bharat Mata’.
It would be in the ‘interest of the nation if a patriot will chop off his hands. I will give that person Rs 11 lakh’, he said.
Baig asked the government to take back all the honours bestowed on the noted painter and declare him a ‘traitor’. In an Indore court, Baig had earlier filed a petition against Bollywood actor Dharmendra’s purported second marriage to Hema Malini.
Re: Hindu Law Board offers Rs 51 cr for killing M F Hussain
I don’t think some people here religion board come to discuss and understand. Anyway…
A Muslim MP in India had given call for Rs. 51 crore for killing the Danish Cartoonist. For Political reasons, neither Congress or Ruling Party in Uttar Pradesh “SamajWadi Party”. Since they bank on Muslim vote bank condemned that. This statement got lots of press and publicity.
So ofcourse fringe groups jumped on it, and also starting declaring such rewards. Hindu Law Board, 99.99% Hindus haven’t even heard of these guys before this call. Now they are known,
F&B as of now they aren’t known beyond the room they operate from. But if political brass kept on subverting proper systems of the land for the sake of vote bank, these people may be known in some time to everybody.
BJP came to power on Babri Masjid Issue. The Babri Masjid was locked for 100+ years. Mr. Rajiv Gandhi opened it for prayers to appease Hindus, since he had already appeased Muslims with ShahBano case. See what it did, brought BJP ShivSena to power.
Lets see letting the call from exterme elements go unheard will bring what to this nation now…
