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| VHP firebrand claims death threat from Binny |
| 2006-01-29 |
| Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) International General Secretary Pravin Togadia has reportedly received a death threat from Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden warning him on his “anti-Muslim” stand. The Ahmedabad unit of the VHP today confirmed receipt of a letter in this regard. They said the letter warned Togadia of dire consequences for his anti-Muslim stand. The sources added that the police had been informed and further investigations were on. Togadia has received death threats in the past also and is under Togadia began his career by working with Narendra Modi to create a strong political base for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat in the early 1990s. He then left active politics to work entirely for the VHP. He was the face of the VHP in the 2002 ‘sheela daan’ standoff in Ayodhya, when thousands of VHP activists sought to perform a ceremony at the disputed site where the destroyed Babri mosque once stood. Togadia has provoked huge criticism by hailing the infamous Gujarat riots of 2002 as the “natural response of Hindus” to fundamentalist Islamic terrorism. More than a thousand people were killed in the riots. Togadia is also known for his anti Pakistan stand and of late has criticized d the BJP, for failing to bring an ordinance to ban cow slaughter, construct the Ram Temple at Ayodhya, and proclaim a Hindu Rashtra in India. He has also been critical of BJP leader LK Advani’s “secular” comments on Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |