Stirring the hornet’s nest | Letters To the Editor - Hindustan Times

Letters To the Editor - Hindustan Times, October 15, 2003
 
Stirring the hornet’s nest

Atal Bihari Vajpayee implying that the prohibitory orders from Ayodhya and Faizabad should be withdrawn by the Mulayam Singh Yadav government, is arbitrary (We should trust VHP: PM, October 13). There are many instances where VHP leaders have broken their promises. Praveen Togadia never kept the promise he made to the court in Rajasthan in April that he would not give hate speeches anymore. And Ashok Singhal has recently been charge-sheeted for his alleged role in the Babri masjid demolition.

Vishal Arora, Delhi

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Every time people seem to be settling down to a life free from communal tension and of socio-economic progress, the VHP and its allied organisations whip up communal tension by declaring some puja or darshan at Ayodhya (Treading choppy waters, October 14). And when elections are round the corner, their love for Ram increases even at the cost of national interest. The temple issue has earned India a bad image in the world.

Because of a communal polarisation encouraged by the so-called perpetrators of Hindutva, mutual suspicion and hostility have increased manifold. Silence and inaction on the part of saner elements will encourage animosity, resulting in destabilisation.

Ved Guliani, via e-mail