The Hindu : Tamil Nadu News : BJP bid to create communal discord will fail, says Vaiko

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Saturday, Dec 11, 2004

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BJP bid to create communal discord will fail, says Vaiko

By Our Staff Reporter

ERODE, DEC. 10. Asserting that an "ideological crisis" is still raging in the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam founder, Vaiko, today charged it with trying to create communal discord in Tamil Nadu.

Talking to the media here, he said the BJP was trying to "use the Kanchi Acharya arrest issue" to win sympathy and strengthen its vote-bank. "But it is only a dream." For, people in Tamil Nadu wanted communal harmony.

Criticising the former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Uma Bharti, for dragging the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, in the controversy over the arrest of the Acharya, Mr. Vaiko said she was surviving only with the help of the Sangh Parivar.

On the Prevention of Terrorism Act, he said. "It is repealed but not with retrospective effect, so we are still are POTA accused before the designated court".

On the Sethusamudram project, he said the State administration was ``trying to block it'', but he was confident that the scheme would be implemented.

The MDMK's conference of agriculturists and agricultural labourers would be held at Vedasandur in Dindigul district in February.

Mr. Vaiko later visited Kodumudi, Kangeyam and Dharapuram, where workers' meetings were conducted.

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