akhand Bharat

VHP tells Advani to take sanyas OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The Telegraph Wednesday, June 15, 2005 New Delhi, June 14: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has asked L.K. Advani to take “sanyas” (retirement) from politics for “insulting” the country with his remarks on Mohammed Ali Jinnah. A special resolution, adopted by the VHP on the first day of the two-day meeting of the kendriya marg darshak mandal — its highest decision-making body — in Hardwar condemned Advani’s Pakistan visit and congratulated the BJP for “rejecting” the observations he penned on Jinnah on his visit to the Quaid-e-Azam’s mausoleum in Karachi on June 4. “The manner in which Advani insulted India on Pakistani soil and remained adamant on his stand, the only option available to him is to take total sanyas from politics,” VHP general secretary Praveen Togadia said, reading out the resolution. It accused him of “betraying” India in an “enemy country” and asked him to come clean on what “selfish interest” prompted him to do so. The outfit wanted to know who Advani’s idol was, Veer Savarkar or Jinnah.

The resolution asserted that the creation of Pakistan was to date “unacceptable” to every “patriotic” citizen. It said: “From sage Aurobindo to the new generation, everyone is committed to the cause of akhand Bharat (greater India). By describing Pakistan as an unalterable reality of history, Advani has insulted crores of patriots, including Aurobindo….” The VHP took exception to Advani describing the Babri demolition as the “saddest day of my life” and reminded him of how he had repeatedly referred to the mosque as a “de jure, de facto temple”. The resolution said his words had not only “blackened” his Ram rath yatra but also insulted the sentiments of the 85 crore Hindus involved in the temple “agitation”.