Togadia warns against clemency for Afzal

New Delhi, Oct 17: The VHP today warned the UPA government against succumbing to the ''forces'' opposing the death penalty for Parliament attack mastermind Mohammad Afzal, saying any such act of ''terror appeasement'' would be an insult to the country.

Flaying the people advocating clemency for Afzal, VHP general secretary Pravin Togadia said, ''Parliament was attacked by 'jehadis' and our jawans died resisting them ...however, the Congress chief ministers of Jammu and Kashmir and Andhra Pradesh, and former J&K chief minister Farooq Abdullah are advocating clemency for the terrorists.'' ''Why isn't Abdullah arrested for threatening that India will go up in flames if Afzal is hanged,'' he questioned.

Such senior leaders should not be asking for clemency for Afzal and trying ''Indian tolerance'', he said.'' The people seeking clamency for Afzal are interfering with the judicial sustem and also discriminating on religious lines.'' ''In 1947, Jinnah broke India, in 1977 Indira Gandhi slapped emergency on India and now the UPA is trying to force 'terror emergency' in the country.'' Announcing that Afzal would be ''hanged'' in every village and city on October 20 to express the people's anguish over the government's ''dilly-dallying approach'' on the issue, the VHP general secretary said 100,000 such programmes would be carried out all over the country.

''When the world is coming together against jehadi terrorism, the UPA governemt has been appeasing those who planned the Parliament attack...it also repealed the POTA and talked to Pakistan in Havana while hundreds had died in Mumbai,'' he added.

UNI

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