Hindus must vote for BJP: Swamy

In run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy exhorted all Hindus to cast their votes en masse to the BJP candidates.

“It is time Hindus unanimously cast their votes to save India and Hinduism. Muslims and Christians unitedly cast their votes to candidates fielded and approved by their respective clergies. Time has come for the Hindus to vote for candidates who openly declare that they would protect Sanatana Dharma and Indian nationalism,” said Swamy while releasing the book Dr Manmohan Singh; A Decade of Decay authored by MR Venkatesh, a chartered accountant-turned-columnist.

A jam packed audience including hundreds of Congressmen gave a standing ovation to Swamy at the end of his 70-minute speech justifying his demand that the Hindus in the country elect candidates who would safeguard the interests of India and the Hindu religion. He paid glowing tributes to the “illiterate North Indians” who saved the country from the tyranny of a dictatorial regime in 1977 by voting out the Congress Government and ushering in the first non-Congress Government at the Centre.

The former Harvard economist pointed out that the present leadership of the country has become the embodiment of corruption, anti-nationalism and inefficiency. “Pakistani soldiers trespass into our territories and chop off the heads of Indian soldiers. Our Prime Minister is still extending hand of cooperation to his Pakistani counterpart revealing his weakness. Nawaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Pakistan is a stooge of the ISI, al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The Taliban has declared many times that India is the unfinished chapter in Islamic history. Only an Indian Government with focus on Sanatana Dharma and Hinduism would be able to save the country from the evil designs of the Islamists and the Chinese,” declared Swamy.

He said he was sure about the BJP getting absolute majority in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. “The BJP alone could save the country from an impending disaster and bankruptcy. The only thing Manmohan Singh has done is that he did not resign from the prime ministership,” he said. According to Swamy, the degradation of the Indian economy began during the Rajiv Gandhi administration (1984 to 1989). The VP Singh Government too failed to resurrect the economy. “It was during the first phase of PV Narasimha Rao Government that the economy could be brought back to normality.

But by the third year of his prime ministership, Rao, the best Congress Prime Minister till date, was isolated and harassed by the acolytes of Sonia Gandhi. Immediately after the 1991 Lok Sabha elections, Sonia Gandhi appointed an ailing Rao as Prime Minister in the hope that he would die within months and she could take control of the Government. But surprisingly, Rao’s health improved considerably much to the consternation of Sonia Gandhi,” revealed Swamy, a close confidant of Rao. Whenever Swamy referred the name of Rao, hundreds of Congressmen in the audience clapped their hands and raised the slogan ‘Narasimha Rao amar rahein’.

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