ast your vote for Ram Mandir Cnt> ?Dr Pravin Togadia ?This is not the time to sit silent. Before casting your valuable vote, think who supports the Ram temple and who does not; who supports cow protection and who opposes; who can fight against terrorism and infiltration and who cannot. We want the government in New Delhi that can protect Hindus and the person as Prime Minister who promises to protect the interest of Hindus,? said Dr Pravin Togadia, General Secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP). He was speaking at a Dharma Sabha held in Varanasi on March 19. The meeting was presided over by Arun Tirpathi, president of the Uttar Pradesh Bar Council. Prominent leaders of Sangh and VHP including Shri Onkar Bhave, Mohan Joshi, Thakur Subedar Singh and Suresh Rao Ketkar, Akhil Bharatiya Sah-Pracharak Pramukh of RSS attended the meeting. Coming down heavily on the sycophancy of secularists for winning Muslim votes, Dr Togadia said that these pseudo-secularists were providing patronage to the wrong traditions so as to woo the Muslim voters. He urged the Hindu society to stand as a united force. ?The Indian politics has become slave to the Muslim votes. We have to change this tendency. The time has come when Hindus have to decide who will live in India?Hinduism or jehad,? he said. He reiterated the Hindus? claim on three temples?Ayodhya, Mathura and Kashi and warned that if these three temples were not handed over, the Hindu society would stake claim over the 30,000 mosques and Islamic structures that have been built after demolishing Hindu temples. Speaking on the occasion, VHP Working President, Ashok Singhal called upon the countrymen to instal a pro-Hindu government at the Centre by giving it a two-third majority. ?Only a pro-Hindu government can solve the problems like Common Civil Code, infiltration, and liberation of Ramjanmabhoomi as well as the temples of Mathura and Kashi.? He said that the Hindu society would not accept any foreigner as Prime Minister of the country. He called upon the Hindu youth to come forward for working as Hindu missionaries and make the Islamic and Christian forces that forcibly convert innocent Hindus, to leave the country. ?We have to ensure that Hindu population should not decline by 2011 and by organising big programmes of home-coming we should put a check on the burgeoning Muslims and Christian population.? (FOC)

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