Ramdev, Parivar rally against Centre on 'Hindu terror'

nov 16th, 2008

i don't know why they are saying there's no such thing as hindu terror. mohammedans have demonstrated that terror gets respect.

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Ramdev, Parivar rally against Centre on 'Hindu terror'
Suman K Jha
Posted: Nov 17, 2008 at 0933 hrs IST

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev made a strong pitch for 'regime change' at the
Centre in the LS polls.

Panipat, November 17: : Yoga guru Baba Ramdev and Sangh Parivar
leaders like Ashok Singhal and Sadhvi Ritambhara on Sunday made a
strong pitch for "regime change at the Centre when the country goes to
elections in the coming months". They, however, stopped short of
endorsing the BJP.

The entire saffron brotherhood, including the chief ministers of
BJP-ruled states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, was present to
protest against what they called "attempts to target Hindus in the
name of Hindu terror".

BJP president Rajnath Singh, who joined in towards the end, said his
party "would take to the streets" if the "ongoing campaign against
religious leaders was not halted." Party's prime ministerial candidate
L K Advani couldn't make it ("he couldn't fly to Panipat because of
bad weather," said an Advani aide) to the meeting, but speaking at a
rally in Chandigarh later in the day, he said, "The Congress coined
the term Hindu terrorism, but the BJP never used any term like Muslim
terrorism."

Raising the pitch on the Pragya Singh Thakur issue, Ramdev said:
"Power is today being exercised by people who should either be in
jails or who should be hanged. There will be a massive tussle for
power three months hence. The country needs a big change, where Sant
Shakti (religious gurus) and Jan Shakti (people power) come together.
This process will not stop until the glory of India's past is
restored."

The Yoga guru's ongoing Yoga Vigyan Shivir in the same grounds has
been a huge draw. However, the turnout in Sunday's public meeting was
extremely poor. Ramdev's six-day camp was inaugurated on November 12.
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda visited the camp the next
day.

The congregation on Sunday charged the Congress-led UPA Government of
running a "sponsored campaign" in the ongoing Malegaon blast probe.
RSS chief K S Sudarshan said that the term "Hindu terror" was an
"oxymoron, because the Hindus, by very definition abhor violence". He
said, "The country would always be guided by spiritual gurus like
Asaram Bapu, Morari Bapu, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Baba Ramdev." On
his part, Ramdev added that "the Muslims and Christians of the country
shared common ancestors with the Hindus."

Quoting a TV channel, Rajnath said, "The ATS claims of Lt Col
Purohit's sourcing of RDX for the Samjhauta blasts may not hold water
now that it is being said that ammonium nitrate and sulphuric acid
were used in the blasts."

While most of the speakers said that Pragya, like "Shankaracharya
Jayednra Saraswati earlier" was being hounded only because she
happened to be "a saffron-clad ascetic", a good number of them said
that "even if her involvement in Terror was established, it could not
be equated with Islamic terror".

Swami Chidananad Saraswati, who recently organised a "dialogue"
between Advani and Christian leaders, was one of the organisers of
Sunday's public meeting. Asked how "voices of reconciliation" had
suddenly changed notes, he said: "Punish the guilty in the blasts, but
don't brand him guilty before the charges are established." Asked how
religious gurus like Ramdev could make political comments, he said:
"The political overtones in his speech only show that the sant samaj
is hurt as they are being viewed with suspicion".