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VHP criticizes Ansari, demands apology
New Delhi, Sep 1
Criticizing Vice President
Hamid Ansari about discrimination against Muslims, the VHP on Tuesday
asked him to apologize or resign and take to politics.
"The
remarks by Ansari over the Muslim community is not of a person occupying
the vice president's chair but of a Muslim leader," Vishwa Hindu
Parishad spokesperson Surendra Jain told IANS.
"With due respect to the vice president's post, the VHP condemns his irresponsible statement in strong words," he added.
Ansari
on Monday said while inaugurating a meeting of the All India Muslim
Majlis-e-Mushawarat that the state needed to correct the deprivation,
exclusion and discrimination faced by Muslims.
"This needs to be done at the earliest and appropriate instruments developed for it," he added.
Jain
said that Muslims, the country's largest religious minority, enjoyed
more constitutional rights in India than they do in many Muslim
countries.
"Even Hindus in our country, who are in a majority, don't enjoy such rights.
"What more does the vice president want for the community? He must clarify," the VHP leader said.
"If he doesn't answer these questions, then it is clear that he is doing low-level politics from the vice president's house.
"He must apologize for his remarks. If not, he should resign from his post and enter politics," Jain said.