Advani accuses Congress of communalising UP polls
February 19th, 2012 - 5:51 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani Sunday accused the Congress of “deliberately communalising” the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, a day after the poll panel served notice on Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma for promising a
sub-quota for Muslims.
“Never before have the Congress party or its leaders communalised an assembly election as consciously and deliberately as it has done in UP in 2012,” Advani said in his latest blog post.
Advani also said suspicion expressed Saturday by party leader Arun Jaitley that the remarks of Verma and earlier Law Minister Salman Khurshid were pre-planned would prove to be true if Verma too (like Khurshid) does not face any action.
“If Verma also does something like what Khurshid has done (tendering an apology), and escapes removal from the ministry, then Jaitley’s suspicion would be proved correct that these statements are not individual acts of defiance of a constitutional authority but part of a planned poll-oriented conspiracy by the party’s poll managers,” wrote Advani.
He also cited Congress leader Digvijay Singh’s recent statement that the Batla House gunfight with terrorists was fake gunfight to support his view.
Advani contended that the three events last week had been unprecedented in the history of Indian elections.
These are the poll panel’s notice to Khurshid, his defiance of it and the poll panel’s shock over it, he said.
- Quota remarks: Poll panel notice to Verma, minister unfazed (Second Lead) - Feb 18, 2012
- Poll panel asks Verma to explain 'wilfull' sub-quota remark (Lead) - Feb 18, 2012
- Congress to reply to poll panel on Verma's comments - Feb 20, 2012
- BJP complains to poll panel against Verma's quota remarks (Lead) - Feb 17, 2012
- Congress in quota controversy again (Lead) - Feb 16, 2012
- Not guilty of violating model code, Verma tells poll panel (Lead) - Feb 21, 2012
- Khurshid, Verma repeat violators of poll code: Jaitley - Feb 19, 2012
- After Khurshid, another minister promises quotas in UP - Feb 16, 2012
- GoM didn't discuss poll code: Narayanasamy (Lead) - Feb 22, 2012
- Ministers will speak according to EC guideline: Khurshid - Feb 18, 2012
- PM may intervene in Khurshid-Election Commission row - Feb 13, 2012
- BJP complains to poll panel over quota controversy - Feb 17, 2012
- BJP hits out at PM's 'deafening silence' - Feb 16, 2012
- Will oppose any move to weaken poll panel: BJP - Feb 21, 2012
- Have not violated poll code, says Khurshid - Jan 11, 2012
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