Monday, January 21, 2013

'Saffron terror' remark: BJP wants Shinde sacked

  The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday slammed Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde for his remarks that "Training camps of both the BJP and the RSS are promoting Hindu terrorism. The party demanded unconditional apology from UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan 
  Singh 
and also sought Shinde's dismissal.
BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said expressed strong objection to Shinde using the word 'saffron terror'. He said that Saffron is a pure word and it is on our national flag. 
Prasad said terror has no religion. Such remarks by the home minister will give an opportunity to Pakistan to use it against India.
The BJP has also announced a nationwide protest against Shinde's remark on January 24.
BJP's Jammu and Kashmir president Jugal Kishore Sharma also slammed Sushilkumar Shinde for his controversial remarks during the Congress summit in
Jaipur. "Shinde seems to have lost his mental balance, otherwise he would not have been making such irresponsible statements," said BJP Jammu and Kashmir president Jugal Kishore Sharma.
The party takes strong exception to Shinde's remarks on a nationalist party like BJP and a "thoroughly patriotic social organisation" like RSS, Sharma said, accusing the Congress of playing divisive tactics.
He said both Shinde and his party should concentrate more on issues like corruption and price rise which are concerned to common man, instead of making "unproven allegations" against BJP.
Shinde had yesterday stoked a controversy by accusing BJP and RSS of conducting terror training camps and promoting "Hindu terrorism", setting off an angry reaction from the saffron parties which demanded an apology from Sonia Gandhi.
 

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