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BJP asks VHP to take a back seat – VHP takes the matter to grass root asks Hindus to increase population
VHP asked Hindus to increase population as soon as possible to counter conspiracies of India’s political parties including BJP who uses Hindutva in the power struggle.
In a snub to the VHP, BJP president L K Advani categorically refused to apologise for his controversial statements in Pakistan, prompting the Sangh Parivar outfits to demand that he quit politics.
"I have already said what I had to say," the BJP chief is understood to have told Pejawar mutt Swami Vishvesh Teerth when the latter telephoned him yesterday during the meeting of VHP's Kendriya Maargdarshak Mandal (central advisory board) here, sources said.
The Swami conveyed VHP's concern over a statement on Babri Masjid demolition, Akhand Bharat and Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Teerth, along with Swami Paramanand Saraswati, general secretary of the influential Akhara Parishad and a sizeable section of Hindu religious leaders gathered here had expressed reservation over the meeting adopting resolutions against Advani.
According to PTI reports from Hardware, the center of Hindutva, returning to its pet agenda after the attack on BJP President L K Advani, VHP today expressed serious concern over the "unbridled" growth in Muslim population and exhorted Hindus to increase their numbers to "counter" it.
Making a new addition to its long list of Hindu-centric demands, the VHP Kendriya Margdarshak Mandal (Central Advisory Board) meeting, which concluded here today, also demanded that the Bhagwad Gita be declared as the national book of the country.
"Any society with a bigger population commands greater influence in the world. It is a myth that increased population increases unemployment... To counter the dangerous crisis posed by the Muslim population, we urge the Hindu society to make constructive contribution towards increasing the population of the community," Swami Avdeshanand Giri, chief of the influential Juna Akhara, told reporters here reading out from a resolution on `population imbalance'' adopted on the second day of the Board Meeting here today.
The second day show was a damp squib with all the top leaders, including Ashok Singhal and Praveen Togadia, leaving the town earlier than scheduled. Togadia, who was slated to do the press briefing, did not show up.
The resolution pointed out that the 2001 census showed that the Hindu population had increased by 20 per cent as against the Muslim growth rate of 36 per cent.
It expressed apprehension that dozens of districts bordering Bangladesh in Assam, Tripura and West Bengal were on the verge of becoming Muslim majority.
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