Don’t use the term ‘Hindu terrorist’: BJP * Over 50 arrested, dozen injured

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Don’t use the term ‘Hindu terrorist’: BJP

* Over 50 arrested, dozen injured in India migrant violence

NEW DELHI/ PATNA: BJP today said it was wrong to use the term “Hindu terrorists” for the alleged extremists arrested on charges of the Malegaon blasts and charged “some section” of trying to malign the majority community.

“Some sections are trying to malign the majority community. BJP is objecting to the term Hindu terrorists, which is wrong. Nobody is saying that the law must not take its course. No one can say that. A terrorist is a terrorist irrespective of his caste or religion,” party leader Yashwant Sinha said in a press conference here today.

“Investigations should happen but the whole majority community is being assailed. We object to the ultra secularists. We object to what Brinda Karat(CPI-M) said in the House yesterday that it was Hindu terrorism,” he added.

“Vaiko has been arrested because he made a speech in support of LTTE, why haven’t those people been arrested who are speaking in favour of the SIMI,” Sinha questioned.

“This is the level that vote bank politics has reached, by condemning the majority, one seeks to gain the minority vote,” he said.

“It is for government of India to consider a decision in the matter of banning an organisation. If we support the decision we will stand with it,” said Sinha when asked if his party would support banning Hindu outfits, which have alleged linkages with the arrested men and women.

One is trying to give a bad name to the majority community just because one or one and a half act. No one has the right to use the word Hindu terrorists, he added.

Arrested: More than 50 people were arrested and about a dozen injured in clashes with police in eastern India on Saturday in protests against attacks on migrants in the financial hub of Mumbai, police said.

Protesters vandalized railway stations, blocked rail and road traffic and caused shops to shut down in the eastern state of Bihar, as police struggled to control street violence for a sixth day in a row.

Migrant workers from Bihar said they were attacked and thrown out of Mumbai over the last week by supporters of the Maharashtra Navanirman Sena (MNS), a militant Hindu group.

Protesters in one district of Bihar squatted on railways lines and unscrewed the engine of a passenger train, demanding the punishment of the MNS leader, who was arrested on Tuesday for rioting and provoking attacks on migrants but later released on bail.

“The protesters tried to take possession of a train engine and blocked railway lines but we have driven them away”, senior police official Rajesh Kumar told Reuters.

Many residents chose to stay indoors as the violence caused banks, businesses and schools to shut down. agencies

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