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Hindutva leaders can guarantee Muslim
security: Uma Bharti
Sunday May 05, 2013 06:51:11 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Only
right-wing Hindutva leaders can guarantee the security of Muslims
in India, BJP leader Uma Bharti said Sunday, as she defended
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, facing fire over handling of
2002 riots in his state.
"Only right-wing Hindutva leaders can be the saviour of Muslims
and guarantee their security. Only we can instill confidence and
erode fear from the Muslim psyche," Uma Bharti told Aajtak TV
channel.
"The so-called secular brigade has failed to secure the community.
It's important to win their trust, if not their votes," the
Bharatiya Janata Party leader said.
Uma Bharti, the firebrand "sanyasin" and a former Madhya Pradesh
chief minister, who recently returned to the team of central
office-bearers of the BJP, defended Modi, saying there has been no
exodus from Gujarat post-2002 riots.
"There was no Muslim exodus from Gujarat after the riots. People
are at peace with themselves and enjoying the fruits of
development. Let's not do a body count of riot victims on basis of
religion. Hundreds of Hindus died in police firing during the
post-Godhra riots. This negates allegations about Modi's
complicity in the violence," she claimed.
Her full-throttle support can also be gauged from the fact that
she even couched then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's
much-publicised admonition of Modi to follow 'raj dharma' as a
spur-of-the-moment reaction to a journalist's query.
"Atalji is a spontaneous speaker. I was with him in Gujarat in the
tense weeks following the riots. Vajpayee's call for morality was
no criticism of Modi. It was no advice, no call to Modi to redeem
himself. He just blurted it out," she said.
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