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Uma suggests formula to deal with fundamentalism

Staff Correspondent

CHANDIGARH: Bharatiya Jan Shakti Party president Uma Bharti on Saturday said that India was the most adversely affected by the phenomena of religious and market fundamentalism. To deal with the situation, she suggested a unified nationwide effort where politicians would have to resist the temptation of following vote bank based agenda and the Chief Ministers avoid `high growth rate' syndrome.

The Sadhvi was interacting with journalists at a meet-the-press programme organised by the Chandigarh Press Club before presiding over a meeting of the presidents and other office bearers of the Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh units of her party.

Ms. Bharti argued that both religious and market fundamentalism shared the same `gotra' (surname), adding that while different countries of the world faced different shades of fundamentalism, India has had to bear the brunt of both, which "were devised to curtail the progress of India". Ms. Bharti announced that her party would contest all the seats in the upcoming Punjab, Uttaranchal and Uttar Pradesh elections since it was mandatory to secure at least six per cent votes polled in at least four States to ensure a national party status with the EC.

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