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Rajnath: ISI has launched economic terrorism

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BANGALORE: More than one crore workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party will court arrest in different States on August 21 in protest against the decision by the Jammu and Kashmir government to withdraw the grant of land to the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB), BJP national president Rajnath Singh said here on Tuesday.

Addressing the party’s state executive committee meeting, Mr. Singh also declared that, if need be, the BJP leaders would go to Srinagar to hoist the national flag at Lal Chowk where anti-Indian forces allegedly hoisted the Pakistan flag on Independence Day.

He said the BJP would continue to support the protest till the land was given back to the SASB.

He accused the UPA government and the Congress of launching cultural terrorism. “First they meddled with Sethusamudram and now they are mishandling the Amarnath issue,” he charged and said the BJP would make the Amarnath row an election issue.

Later addressing presspersons, Mr. Singh alleged that the ISI of Pakistan and other hostile forces were now launching economic terrorism against India by pumping in large amounts of fake currency through the Bangladesh and Nepal borders.

According to estimates by a government committee, fake currency worth Rs. 1.69 lakh crore was in circulation in India, and it was being used to fund terror modules. “The UPA government should bring out a white paper on circulation of fake currency in the country.”

He termed the adoption of a resolution by the Pakistan Assembly on the developments in Jammu and Kashmir as “direct interference in the internal affairs of India.” The Centre should initiate aggressive diplomatic action against Pakistan to put an end to this. The Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) initiated with Pakistan to build a cordial atmosphere had failed.

Referring to the statement by the UPA that a separate federal investigating agency to handle terrorism was needed, he said it was more important to frame a federal law to strengthen the action against terrorism. The NDA would come out with a stringent law to handle terrorism if voted to power, he said.

Mr. Singh demanded a clarification from Manmohan Singh on the confusion over the former deputy National Security Adviser Satish Chandra questioning the authenticity of National Security Adviser M.K. Narayan’s statement that nearly 800 terror modules in the country had been unearthed.

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