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BJP march
to divert focus on terror cases linked to RSS: Congress
Wednesday January 26, 2011 10:19:54 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
Congress Wednesday said the Bharatiya Janata Party's 'Ekta Yatra'
to Srinagar was aimed at diverting attention from terror-related
charges faced by people linked to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
(RSS).
The Jammu and Kashmir government stopped the BJP activists' march
to maintain law and order in the state, the party said.
Congress spokesman Shakeel Ahmed alleged that the purpose of the
march by Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) activists to Srinagar
to hoist the national flag at Lal Chowk was to "hide the shame of
involvement of RSS cadres in terror incidents".
"Everybody in the country knows it was only to hide the shame of
involvement in terror incidents of cadres of RSS. They wanted to
give a message that they are very patriotic and hide that shame.
The country is mature enough to understand this type of
theatrics," Ahmed told IANS.
Ahmed also accused the BJP leaders of trying to break rules of the
constitution by their actions related to the march.
"Under the Constitution, a state has the right to maintain law and
order. The state government took steps it thought were necessary
so that law and order is not violated. The BJP wanted to butcher
the spirit of our constitution which was promulgated on Jan 26,
1950, and they wanted to butcher the spirit of Republic Day," he
said.
Ahmed said it was "very unfortunate that the BJP leaders were
putting the honour of national flag at risk for their petty
considerations".
He said Kashmir was a sensitive place and the state and central
governments had been able to restore peace with great difficulty.
Ahmed added that any leader "who had played politics with national
flag had been punished by people".
"Former BJP president Murli Manohar Joshi went all the way to Lal
Chowk under protection of the army. He was so afraid that he
placed the flag upside down. At that time, he was the third most
powerful leader of the BJP. Today he is not even at number 10,"
Ahmed said.
Recalling the case against former Madhya Pradesh chief minister
Uma Bharati for flag-hoisting and speeches at a communally
disturbed place in Hubli, he said she not only lost her post but
has not been politically rehabilitated.
BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj had earlier in the day
accused both the central and the state governments of having
surrendered ideologically and psychologically to separatists in
Kashmir.
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