Rights activist asks court to derecognise BJP >From Indo-Asian News Service
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Friday takes up a petition that urges it to "derecognise" Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as a political party for its links with Hindu religious groups. The petition, filed by long-time rights activist and Arya Samaj leader Swami Agnivesh, has sought to invoke a statutory provision that all political parties registered with the Election Commission must have secular credentials. In his petition, Agnivesh has alleged that the BJP, its ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and their affiliates Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bajrang Dal were "out and out communal organisations". "The BJP has been keeping a false distance from these organisations," Agnivesh told IANS shortly after he filed the petition before the High Court. "Now that mask is removed following the Gujarat violence, the BJP should be de-recognised." The continuing sectarian violence in Gujarat that has claimed around 925 lives since February-end has brought much international and domestic flak for the BJP-RSS-VHP-Bajrang Dal. It has been widely alleged that Hindu radicals linked to these groups led the killer mobs that targeted Muslims, burning or hacking them to death and destroying their properties across the western state. Although the BJP has denied its involvement in the anti-Muslim carnage, Muslim survivors in many places have identified known BJP leaders and volunteers as among those who led the rampaging mobs. --Indo-Asian News Service =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
