THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The BJP president, Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi, Jan.27 said his party did not consider any religious denomination in the country as a minority, reports PTI.

The concept of religious minority was applicable only to a theocratic state, they told a Meet the press program’ here.

Criticizing the Congress led Kamataka government for preventing his party men from hoisting the national flag at the Idgah maidan in Hubli on Tuesday, he sought to know whether carrying the Tricolor was a ‘cognizable offence.”

Dr. Joshi said the demolished Structure at Ayodhya could not be ‘rebuilt by any force.’ Only a Ram temple would come up at the site which would be constructed by the trust formed by the VHP, he asserted.

The Congress had lost its sense of direction and its party men were utterly confused, he said, this was evident in the KPCC president, Vayala Ravi’s plea to convene an AICC session to remove doubts in the minds of party men, he said.

Stating that the Ayodhya incident had given a ‘clear signal’ to secessionists in Kashmir and other parts of the country, he said the demolition of the disputed structure showed that the country’s youth were not satisfied with the Steps taken by the government for the construction of a Ram temple.

Dr. Joshi claimed that the BJP had ‘a clean record’ in the four states it ruled. As for the alliance with the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, he said it was only a political alliance meant for elections.

The BJP leader reiterated the party sdemands for the dissolution of the Lok Sabha and holding of fresh elections, elections to the four previous BJ Pruled states dissolution of the Maharashtra and Gujarat Assembles and the lifting of the ban on the VHP and its terrorist counterpart, the RSS.

Dr. Joshi charged the Prime Minister, P.V.Narasimha Rao, with rendering the country bankrupt and merged the youth of the country not to “tolerate the misleading of the country into the mortgage of foreigners’. Addressing a public meeting here Tuesday, Dr. Joshicniticize the Rao government’s economic policy, which, he said, indebted every Indian to the World Bank.

 

Article extracted from this publication >>  February 5, 1993