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BJP tells Ulfa to pick ballot over bullet http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060220/asp/northeast/story_5869234.asp | ||
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Guwahati, Feb. 19: The BJP today urged the banned Ulfa to shun violence and join the mainstream by contesting elections in the interest of the states development. Addressing a massive pre-poll rally here this morning, the partys general secretary Pramod Mahajan backed the ongoing peace initiative but he insisted that the process be meaningful. We request the Ulfa to shun violence and contest the polls. We will welcome you to the mainstream but you will have stay away from violence. The people of Assam have been sandwiched between bullets of the Ulfa and those of the security forces. As a result, the states development has been hampered. Violence will not take Assam anywhere, he said. Assam is an integral part of India and will always remain so. Under no circumstances will the sovereignty of the country be compromised. he added. Mahajan also criticised Congress president Sonia Gandhi for not visiting strife-torn Kakopathar. The Kakopathar incident could have been avoided had the Congress ministers gone to the spot on that day itself, he said. He accused Sonia Gandhi of apathy towards the family of the slain Ajit Mahanta, saying she did not even visit them during her Assam tour. Condemning the Kakopathar police firing, Mahajan hoped the army would treat the custody death of Mahanta as its final mistake. BJP chief Rajnath Singh on his maiden trip to Assam as party president, said the state is in for a change and the BJP will wrest power in the forthcoming elections. He asked the UPA government to amend the Foreigners Act in its proposed form as it would only abet influx. Singh also asked the BJP-ruled states to stop Christian missionaries from carrying out conversions. The Centre should frame a legislation in this regard, he added. Mahajan had earlier said in another 25 years, all the districts in Assam would be controlled by Bangladeshis because of heavy influx in the past. To nullify the impact of the scrapped Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, the Centre has amended the Foreigners Act. It is nothing but appeasement of the minority vote bank, he said. Both Mahajan and Singh refrained from attacking either the AGP or the AGP (P). |
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