Sangh Parivar

NEW DELHI: Whipping up the controversy
over land transfer to the Amranath Shrine Board as one of its key Hindutva
campaign planks for the coming Lok Sabha polls, Opposition BJP has called a
nationwide bandh on Thursday to protest against the Congress-led government's
"surrender to communal forces" in Jammu and Kashmir. It has demanded restoration
of the land to the shrine board.

With the entire Sangh Parivar coming
together in support of the issue to use it against ruling Congress — at
the Centre and in Srinagar — senior BJP leaders met on Tuesday and drew up
a resolution to spin it into a larger poll issue.

Calling the J&K
government's decision to revoke allotment of the land to the Amarnath Shrine
Board for development of facilities to pilgrims "a complete surrender to
fundamentalist and separatist forces", BJP accused Congress of demonstrated that
"it is one with fundamentalists in creating a theocratic environment in the
Kashmir Valley".

Picking up the issue in Bhopal and launching a sharp
attack on Congress, BJP's prime ministerial candidate L K Advani on Tuesday said
that the contrast between the two coalition governments that Congress leads
— at the Centre and in Srinagar — exposes the fact that it has no
commitment to its electorate.

Congress has ignored its Left allies at
the Centre and decided to go ahead with the nuclear deal with US, Advani said,
despite warnings for two years that the Left will have to pull out if UPA goes
for the deal, and has created instability at the Centre.

The same party,
Advani pointed out, succumbed to PDP’s threat of pulling out of a
government in Srinagar, whose tenure gets over in the next four months. The PM
said that he had assured American president George Bush on the deal, Advani
pointed out, asking the PM in the context on whether he had any concern about
his assurance to the nation to provide a stable government for its full term,
and also whether he believed in any assurance towards the Amarnath
yatra.

Adding another Hindutva element to the poll campaign, Advani
committed that NDA will include in its poll manifesto, expanding of religious
tourism in the country.

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