New Delhi: The recent Lok Sabha polls had shown that an election could be won “without Muslim support” and it was time the minority community learnt to respect Hindu sentiments, VHP chief patron and senior RSS leader Ashok Singhal has said.
“Muslims will be treated as common citizens nothing more, nothing less. And, they must learn to respect Hindu sentiments. If they keep opposing Hindus, how long can they survive?” said the 88-year-old who has been a lifelong pracharak of the RSS, the ideological parent of the BJP.
He also said that Muslims should withdraw claims over Ayodhya, Kashi and Mathura and also accept a uniform civil code. We’ll then give them love, and not claim any other mosque sites even though there are thousands built on the ruins of temples. But if they don’t accept it, they should be prepared for further Hindu consolidation. It has happened at the Centre, it will happen in other states,” the daily further quoted Singhal as saying.
During the campaign, he conducted himself like a swayamsevak. He also showed to the world the discipline and hard work that a Sangh pracharak puts in. The government will not and does not need to backtrack because it has the numbers in the House, and whatever we want to do, we want to do it through constitutional means,” Singhal said.
The VHP had strained relations with the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led National Democratic Alliance government because, as the Hindu outfit felt, NDA did not come good on its “core issues” like abrogation of Article 370, uniform civil code and Ram Temple.
Bureau Report
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