April 11, 2007
After CD, BJP Releases Provocative Advertisement
Lucknow
Close on the heels of the CD released as part its poll campaign in
Uttar Pradesh that raised a maelstrom of controversy, the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) has published a communally sensitive
advertisement in some newspapers in Uttar Pradesh.
The advertisement was released in some Hindi dailies published from
different cities in western Uttar Pradesh - where the second phase
of the staggered assembly elections is due April 13 - and allegedly
sought to label Islamic seminaries as "centres of terrorist
activity".
Apparently drawing parallel to Pakistan, the advertisement shows a
locality with green flags hoisted from every housetop, along with a
slogan questioning the "intentions" of madrasas. The slogan reads: "kya
in madrasson ke irade pak hain?" (are the intentions of these
madrassas genuine?)
Reports reaching from Aligarh said that senior BJP leaders "see
nothing wrong with the advertisement." Party vice president Kalyan
Singh, who was in the fray from that district, was seen telling a TV
channel, "there is nothing objectionable about the advertisement."
Singh alleged: "The increasing popularity of the BJP has become a
cause of worry for all other parties, whose leaders were now looking
for ways to seek de-recognition of the BJP by making mountain out of
a mole hill."
He was also critical of the Congress, the ruling Samajwadi Party,
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Left parties for their
condemnation of the controversial CD earlier released by the BJP as
a part of its poll campaign.
Political parties have decried the contents of the CD as grossly
anti-Muslim and apparently aimed at vitiating the communal
environment.
Even as top BJP leaders including L.K. Advani and party chief
Rajnath Singh had publicly disowned the disc, Kalyan Singh was going
about eulogising it during his poll campaign in Aligarh, reports
said.
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