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ABVP protests against demand to commute terrorist's death sentence

Special Correspondent

`The demand is part of vote bank politics'

MYSORE: Members of the Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) staged a demonstration in the city on Saturday, in protest against the demand from a section of society to commute the death sentence awarded to Mohammad Afzal in the Parliament attack case.

They distributed pamphlets, which recalled the attack on the Parliament on December 13, 2001, and said it was an attack on an institution that symbolised democracy, secularism and freedom in modern India.

The public should ponder over the fate of the country had the terrorists been successful in their nefarious designs and recall the sacrifices of the security personnel who sacrificed their life to safeguard Indian leadership and democracy, they said.

Taking exception to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's statements that hanging Mohammad Afzal would foment terrorism in the valley, the ABVP activists said that this amounted to betrayal of the democratic and secular credentials of India and playing into the hands of terrorists.

Attributing the demand to commute the death sentence to be part of vote bank politics, the ABVP warned that such a decision favouring the demand would only help escalate terrorist activities in the country.

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