Author: PTI
Publication: Yahoo News
Date: February 18, 2009
URL: http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20090218/1419/tnl-no-problem-if-bjp-gives-up-hindutva.html
Samajwadi Party today said it has no problem
with BJP if the saffron party gives up its Hindutva issues, drawing a sharp
reaction from the main opposition party which said it cannot make sacrifice
its ideology for short-term political gains. "I had stated in Lok Sabha
and also told Advaniji a long time back that we have no problem with BJP in
case it dropped the three contentious issues of Article 370, uniform civil
code and Ram Temple.
A reference to it can also be found in the
parliament records", SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav told reporters in
Lucknow today. The BJP dismissed as "mischievous" Yadav's remarks
saying these are "intended to spread rumour.
"There cannot be even a remote possibility
for BJP to consider SP," party Vice-President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told
reporters in New Delhi. "Such statements are an effort to misguide the
voters and is part of SP's efforts to regain its lost relevance by creating
confusion among the masses", he added.
Naqvi said "Ayodhya is among the core
issues of the party and there is no point to leave it. Our party is not like
others which can compromise on its ideology for short term political gains,"
Naqvi said.
"BJP stands for justice, social upliftment
and equality for all while both SP and BSP have proven by their rule that
they are synonymous with goondaraj, injustice and to create a rift in society",
he said.
