Pay honorarium to priests, not just imams: VHP to Mamata
Friday April 20, 2012 06:49:42 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: The Vishwa
Hindu Parishad(VHP) Friday said it would launch a campaign in West
Bengal demanding monthly honorariums to Hindu priests and
unemployed youth to protest against the Mamata Banerjee-led
government's decision to pay honorariums of Rs.2,500 to imams.
As part of the campaign named 'Amakeo Rs.2500 Dao' ('Give Me
Rs.2,500 Too'), signatures of unemployed youth and priests would
be taken, said VHP international general secretary Pravin Togadia.
"It is time Mamata Banerjee stopped playing the politics of
community appeasement. If the imams can get money, what wrong have
the priests done? They should also be paid," he said.
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