The Hindu`Vote bank politics will lead to another partition of the country'
[Satpal Jain (centre), National convener of BJP Legal Cell, with party colleague Bandaru Dattatreya and State unit president N. Indrasena Reddy at the first national zonal legal cell convention in Hyderabad on Saturday. - Photo : P.V. Sivakumar] (IMAGE COURTESY: The Hindu)
HYDERABAD, OCTOBER 23: Expressing concern over the moves by the Congress Governments to provide reservations to Muslims, former MP and BJP Legal Cell national convenor Satpal Jain has warned the Congress against "playing with fire" for the sake of a few seats in Parliament and Assemblies.
Reservations to Muslims, if not opposed, would result in dividing the people on religious lines and lead to another partition of the country in the long run. "These parties which claim themselves as secularists are advocating communal ideas like reservations to Muslims," he said. Mr. Jain was delivering the inaugural address at the party's 4th State legal convention and the first national zonal convention organised here on Saturday. ...
Satpal Jain (middle), National convenor of the BJP Legal Cell in conversation with Bandaru Dattatreya at the First National Zonal Legal Cell convention in Hyderabad on October 22, 2005. At right is N. Indrasena Reddy, State BJP president. Photo: P.V. Sivakumar (Courtesy: TheHinduImages.com)
HYDERABAD, OCTOBER 23: Expressing concern over the moves by the Congress Governments to provide reservations to Muslims, former MP and BJP Legal Cell national convenor Satpal Jain has warned the Congress against "playing with fire" for the sake of a few seats in Parliament and Assemblies.
Reservations to Muslims, if not opposed, would result in dividing the people on religious lines and lead to another partition of the country in the long run. "These parties which claim themselves as secularists are advocating communal ideas like reservations to Muslims," he said. Mr. Jain was delivering the inaugural address at the party's 4th State legal convention and the first national zonal convention organised here on Saturday. ...
Satpal Jain (middle), National convenor of the BJP Legal Cell in conversation with Bandaru Dattatreya at the First National Zonal Legal Cell convention in Hyderabad on October 22, 2005. At right is N. Indrasena Reddy, State BJP president. Photo: P.V. Sivakumar (Courtesy: TheHinduImages.com)
