VHP to create 50 million-strong 'Hindu vote bank'

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million-strong 'Hindu vote bank' Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:12:55 -0800>VHP to

create 50 million-strong 'Hindu vote bank'>2005-12-23 Published by new

kerala.com Gathered by Staff Reporter>>VADODARA,DECEMBER 23: The Vishwa Hindu

Parishad (VHP) today resolved to create>an independent ''Hindu Vote Bank'' of

50 million dedicated Hindus in the>country to defeat the minority appeasement

policy and pave the way for a Hindu>rashtra. The organisation also decided to

hold the third Vishwa Hindu Sammelan>at Prayag in the last week of February

2007, and finalise the direct action>programmes for the proposed nation-wide

Ram Janmabhoomi movement, if the Centre>failed to bring a legislation to

resolve the Ram Mandir issue by then. The>''biggest ever'' three-day Sammelan

scheduled to start from February 27, 2007,>would be attended by Hindu

representatives from 100,000 villages in India and>over 100 foreign countries.

Briefing newspersons after the three-day VHP>Kendriya Pranyasi Mandal (Board ofs) meeting, which concluded at the>Sokhda Swaminarayan temple near here

this evening, VHP International General>Secretary Praveen Togadia said the

Mandal had finalised a 14-point ''Hindu>charter of demands'' to use the vote

bank in elections only for those political>parties and candidates who would

fully to those demands and support>Hindutva in letter and spirit. A

resolution passed at the highest decision>making body of the VHP said creation

of the Hindu vote bank was necessary to>protect the interests and other rights

of 85 crore Hindus, who were being>''neglected'' and ''insulted'' by the

political parties and their leaders for>their narrow political gain. The

14-point Hindu charter of demands included a>Central legislation permitting

construction of temples at Ayodhya, Kashi and>Mathura, ban on cow slaughter,

law against conversion and Islamic terrorism,>implementation of a uniform civil

code and declaration of all Hindu math>temples as autonomous

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