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BJP hails Election Commission order
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI:
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday welcomed the Election Commission's directive to delete from the electoral rolls the names of all persons against whom there were non-bailable warrants for at least six months. The BJP said the Prime Minister should convene an all-party meeting to consider legislation to prevent those chargesheeted in criminal offences from contesting elections.
However, such a law should not apply to "political cases," party spokesman V.K. Malhotra said here. The BJP, he said, always held that the Babri Masjid demolition case was "political" arising from a political agitation on the Ram temple issue even if the offences for which its leader L.K. Advani stood charged were criminal.
On the Nanavati Commission report on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Mr. Malhotra said the party "rejected" the finding that the top Congress leadership was not guilty. "We do not agree with the Commission findings that [former prime Minister] Rajiv Gandhi and [then Home Minister] P.V. Narasimha Rao were innocent."
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