The Hindu : `Hindutva closely identified with development'

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Sunday, Jan 11, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

`Hindutva closely identified with development'

HYDERABAD, JAN. 10. The Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Uma Bharati, has said that Hindutva is closely identified with development.

She based her observation on the development that flourished in the four generations of Ram Raj. "There was social justice during the rule of Ram," she said.

Ms. Bharati who arrived here for the national executive meeting of BJP was participating in a felicitation function organised in her honour by the Andhra Pradesh Lodh Kshatriya Samaj at Dhoolpet, here on Saturday.

Ms. Bharati said she was proud to be a Lodh and fondly recalled how the people of the community had taken her in a procession on an elephant in Dhoolpet in 1972 when she had taken `Sanyas' as a 13-year-old.

She said the Lodhas had come a long way since they had a lone Minister years ago. "There have been Chief Ministers and a number of Ministers since then. They occupy important places in political spectrum. The last 10 years have been crucial to the progress of the community," she noted.

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