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Sack Mulayam Govt.: Rajnath

`BJP will support Centre if it dismisses Uttar Pradesh Government'

ON ALERT: Security personnel take position near Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi on Sunday after security was beefed up in the temple town in the wake of last Tuesday's blasts. - Photo: AP

Lucknow: The BJP on Sunday demanded immediate dismissal of the Mulayam Singh Yadav Government in Uttar Pradesh in the wake of twin bomb blasts in temple town Varanasi, saying it had failed to protect lives of innocent people.

``The BJP will support the Centre if it dismisses the Mulayam Government which has failed to protect lives of innocent people,'' party President Rajnath Singh told a meeting of party workers here.

He, however, attacked the Congress charging it with sowing seeds of another division of the country by pursuing ``minority appeasement policy''.

Mr. Singh said the influx of illegal migrants from Bangladesh into the North-East was posing a grave danger, adding ``if Hindus are reduced to minority, secularism will be finished.''

Referring to the headcount of Muslims in the armed forces, he charged the UPA Government with creating social disharmony.

The BJP chief alleged that both the Congress and the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party were getting funds from abroad.

On the Volcker Committee report, he alleged: ``The oil coupons were received by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi''.

Turning to the Union Budget, Mr. Singh demanded reduction in the service tax which had been hiked to 12 per cent for the next fiscal.

Addressing party workers, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi expressed serious concern over continuous flow of illegal migrants into the North-East from Bangladesh.

``This is an attempt to capture parts of the nation,'' he said adding the large-scale infiltration could change the demographic character in the North-East.

``The illegal migrants have their names registered in voters' list and have become Ministers,''Mr. Joshi said.

``The situation in the North-East is far more dangerous than in Kashmir,'' the senior BJP leader said.

On the outcry over publication of caricatures of Prophet Mohammed in some European newspapers, he said the community should also condemn noted painter M. F. Hussain for allegedly depicting Hindu Goddesses in an objectionable manner.

BJP General Secretary Vinay Katiyar said whenever Mulayam Singh Yadav Government was in power, it was rocked by communal violence.

Mr. Katiyar demanded a CBI probe into the recent killing of a suspected LeT terrorist near Lucknow by police and alleged it was a fake encounter.

The victim was in police custody for three months, he claimed. PTI

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