PM nominee Advani on appeasement drive: Uma

Bhopal, Oct 12 (UNI) Training guns at Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate L K Advani, Bharatiya Jan Shakti (BJS) founder-president and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti today said the former, who had once praised Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was now speaking in favour of a minority community just to fufill his long-cherished dream of becoming premier.

''Mr Advani did not remember the minority community and its God 15 years ago when he launched his Rath Yatra but now the BJP leader is mentioning that he was a student of a missionary school as he is eyeing the Prime Minister's chair,'' Ms Bharti told journalists here.

The BJS supremo, who frequently targets Mr Advani after quitting the BJP, said she would rather choose Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati or Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi over Mr Advani as Prime Minister.

Expressing sympathy with outfits such as the Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the firebrand sadhvi said these organisations never indulged in violence but some unscrupulous elements were resorting to violence in the name of the Bajrang Dal and the VHP.

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