Citizens Demand Disqualification of the BJP from UP Elections

To: Chief Election Commission

April 5, 2007

Appeal to the Chief Election Commission

Sir,

Citizens Demand Disqualification of the BJP from UP Elections

The Central Election Commission should disqualify the BJP from the UP elections for committing a Constitutional, Criminal and Electoral Offence.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has revealed its mindset by circulating an official CD, released by the national and state leadership, that contains nothing short of filthy hate driven propaganda against the minorities. The BJP should be disqualified from the Uttar Pradesh elections as this sort of hate driven propaganda is not simply a Constitutional and Criminal offence but an electoral offence.

A supposedly national party owes the electorate some responsibility. Simply ‘withdrawing it’ because it happened to be exposed by a television channel is not enough as with modern technology it can be reproduced and used anyway. In fact the underground fascist network of the RSS is probably using it still since it is the RSS that is guiding the BJP openly today.

Sir as the IBN 7 channel programme at 9 p.m. showed yesterday the producer and director clearly said that the CD had the sanction of the top party leadership. The party’s National President, Rajnath Singh and state chief Lalji Tandon had clearly sanctioned this filth. Simply withdrawing it by calling the CD communal is not enough.
The CD contains credits to former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and former Home Minister LK Advani. In fact Advani’s

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statements are revealing---claiming that he had not seen it he asked what was wrong about talking about Godhra and Ayodhya???

A full fledged judicial inquiry needs to be ordered into the blatant attempts by the BJP to subvert the Constitution. What the BJP party did through anonymous pamphlets, or those authored by the VHP for two years before the Gujarat genocide in 2002, is today official party propaganda sanctioned by its top leadership. The BJP needs to be held accountable to the Constitution and be disqualified from the elections. Each time in the past despite committing blatantly anti Constitutional criminal acts, it has escaped any censure by Constitutional authorities.


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CD Reveals Hate Driven Mindset of the BJP


Sincerely,

The Undersigned