State BJP joins oust-Shinde cry
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, January 24 2013: Responding to the Nation wide protest of the Bharatiya Janata Party demanding resignation of Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, BJP Manipur Pradesh today organised a day long sit-in-demonstration in front of its office gate at Nityaipat chuthek.

The BJP's campaign is to protest remarks by the Union Minister at the two-day Jaipur session of Indian national Congress that both the BJP and RSS support Hindu terrorism.

Terming Shinde's comments as baseless and irresponsible, State unit BJP vice president Th Nandakishore (Tayai), who is presently party's president in-charge, demanded apologies from the AICC chief Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh.

State BJP president Th Chaoba, who is currently in New Delhi, also condemned similar comments by the Congress spokesman Digvijay Singh that the BJP and RSS support Hindu terrorist groups.

State BJP unit members protesting the statement of Shinde

Vehemently rejecting Congress party's allegations that BJP leaders met Delhi bomb blast accused persons in jail, Chaoba countered why Manipur Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh should not be detained under National Security Act for returning weapons seized from NSCN (IM) cadres and providing financial assistance to armed groups ? .

On the otherhand, BJP national executive member M Bhorot belittling the Congress party allegations, opined that the UPA Government is simply trying to divert national attention on the Government's failure to nab culprits involved in the serial train blasts.

Apart from diversionary tactics the recent unfounded comments by the Congress leaders also testify that both the Congress and the UPA Government are weak and lacking in confidence, said the former MLA.

Accusing the Union Home Minister of trying to cover-up inefficiency of Indian intelligence agencies in preventing acts of terrorism or tracking down the culprits, Bhorot expressed that the Congress party not pointing exact locations, if any, of RSS training camps is yet another sign of the ruling party's weaknesses.

Endorsing BJP national leaders' assertion that Congress party is a communal political organisation, he further opined that Congress leaders blaming the BJP is merely a ploy to lure anti-Hindu voters in view of the upcoming Parliamentary elections.