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>[bJP News] BJP outlines agitation plans in Bangalore

>Sun, 29 Aug 2004 09:45:21 -0500

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>BJP outlines agitation plans in Bangalore

>The Hindu

>August 29, 2004

>By Our Special Correspondent

>

>CHENNAI, AUG. 28. A group of MPs, MLAs and other leaders of the Bharatiya

>Janata

>Party will stage a satyagraha in Bangalore from September 1 to 7 demanding

>the

>removal of the `tainted' Ministers from the Union Ministry, withdrawal of

>the

>cases against the former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Uma Bharti, and

>restoration of the plaque commemorating Savarkar at the Cellular Jail in

>the

>Andamans.

>

>The party president, M.Venkaiah Naidu, told mediapersons here today that

>party

>representatives from all over the country would participate in the

>satyagraha.

>Seven groups, each with representation from multiple States will offer

>"peaceful satyagraha" on different days. On the eighth day there will be a

>rally, after which the former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, will

>address a public meeting.

>

>The former Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, will inaugurate the

>satyagraha.

>Mr. Naidu said that the subsequent phases of the agitation would be

>finalised

>during the course of the satyagraha.

>

>'Smear campaign'

>

>Denying the charge levelled by the ruling party and the Left parties that

>the

>National Democratic Alliance partners were disrupting the parliamentary

>proceedings, Mr. Naidu said that the parties of the NDA were ready to give

>the

>United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government a reasonable length of time to

>produce results. But the BJP could not remain a silent spectator when the

>Congress-led Central Government was indulging in a "smear campaign" against

>freedom-fighters, especially against Savarkar, and foisting "false cases"

>against Opposition leaders.

>

>Demanding the restoration of the Savarkar plaque at the Cellular Jail, Mr.

>Naidu

>said the Congress was trying to distance itself from the issue after its

>Maharashtra unit took a dissenting stand. He said that the senior Congress

>leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad, had said the party did not agree with the views

>of

>Mani Shankar Aiyar in the matter.

>

>If the Congress felt that whatever Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar had said was in

>his

>personal capacity, why did the party president, Sonia Gandhi, write to the

>President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, last year opposing his decision to attend

>the

>unveiling of Savarkar's portrait in the Central Hall of Parliament? Why did

>she

>write to the then Speaker against the unveiling of the portrait? If Ms.

>Gandhi's stand on Savarkar was different from Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar's, was

>her

>decision to oppose the installation of Savarkar's portrait in Parliament

>taken

>in her personal capacity, he asked.

>

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