03-13-2006, 04:16 PM
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Pioneer.com
Agencies / New Delhi
Under attack from secular parties, the Sangh Parivar and BJP on Monday closed ranks and rallied behind L K Advani on his proposed controversial 'National Integration Yatra' from April six announced in the wake of the Varanasi bomb blasts.
Refuting reports and speculation of differences within the Parivar on the Yatra, RSS Chief K S Sudarshan, in a strongly-worded statement from the Sangh Headquarters in Nagpur, said there was<b> "no question of RSS opposing" the twin yatras being undertaken by Advani and Party President Rajnath Singh "with the objective of making people aware about the unbridled Muslim appeasement and the threat it posed to national unity and integrity." </b>
He recalled that the recent RSS General Council meeting in Nagpur had passed resolutions on the dangers posed by minority appeasement to national unity and integrity and said <b>"any effort to create public awareness in this regard will have our support."</b>
Advani had announced the twin yatras in the wake of the Varanasi blasts on March 7 trigerring speculation that it was a unilateral decision which did not enjoy the support of either the party leaders or the Saffron fraternity. VHP leaders Ashok Singhal and Acharya Giriraj Kishore had publicly expressed their reservations on the Yatra.
Meanwhile, in Delhi, in the first public statement in Advani's defence, BJP Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha Vijay Kumar Malhotra asserted that the party was "united" on the Yatra and alleged that the <b>"so-called secularists" have become "jittery and unnerved" by the proposed programme. </b>
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Pioneer.com
Agencies / New Delhi
Under attack from secular parties, the Sangh Parivar and BJP on Monday closed ranks and rallied behind L K Advani on his proposed controversial 'National Integration Yatra' from April six announced in the wake of the Varanasi bomb blasts.
Refuting reports and speculation of differences within the Parivar on the Yatra, RSS Chief K S Sudarshan, in a strongly-worded statement from the Sangh Headquarters in Nagpur, said there was<b> "no question of RSS opposing" the twin yatras being undertaken by Advani and Party President Rajnath Singh "with the objective of making people aware about the unbridled Muslim appeasement and the threat it posed to national unity and integrity." </b>
He recalled that the recent RSS General Council meeting in Nagpur had passed resolutions on the dangers posed by minority appeasement to national unity and integrity and said <b>"any effort to create public awareness in this regard will have our support."</b>
Advani had announced the twin yatras in the wake of the Varanasi blasts on March 7 trigerring speculation that it was a unilateral decision which did not enjoy the support of either the party leaders or the Saffron fraternity. VHP leaders Ashok Singhal and Acharya Giriraj Kishore had publicly expressed their reservations on the Yatra.
Meanwhile, in Delhi, in the first public statement in Advani's defence, BJP Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha Vijay Kumar Malhotra asserted that the party was "united" on the Yatra and alleged that the <b>"so-called secularists" have become "jittery and unnerved" by the proposed programme. </b>
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