Tribal who was stripped in LS poll fray

GUWAHATI: The tribal girl Lakshmi Oraon, a tea garden worker who was stripped by hoodlums here in November last year, has decided to fight the
next parliamentary polls from Tezpur in north Assam.

Lakshmi will contest on a Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF) ticket — a political party that was floated to take on the Congress before the 2006 assembly election in the state. With this, the AUDF would be sniffing at the opportunity of making inroads into some 20 lakh tea garden workers in the state — a sizeable chunk by an reckoning.

"I seek your (public) help in fighting the election. With your cooperation, I can fight this election," Lakshmi said at the public meeting. AUDF confirmed that Lakshmi will be fighting the Lok Sabha polls from Tezpur and said she was now a member of the party.

"Our party has decided to give a ticket to Lakshmi Oraon to fight the Lok Sabha polls from Tezpur. We are hopeful that our party can make and entry into the tea garden community," AUDF president, Badaruddin Ajmal said.


Source : Times Of India

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There's nothing called Hindu terror: Advani

RAIPUR: Senior BJP leader L K Advani has alleged that the majority community is being linked to terrorism to get votes of
minorities.

"In last one month, a new term 'Hindu terrorism' has come into existence. This was pure vote-bank and minority- appeasement politics. We never linked terrorism with any religion. But now, this is being done to get votes," he said.

There should not be any attempt to defame any community for votes, Advani said while addressing an election meeting here ahead of the second phase of polling in Chhattisgarh on Thursday.

Comparing the BJP-led NDA administration with the Congress-headed UPA government on terror front, the former deputy Prime Minister said terrorists were never spared and were killed during the NDA rule.

But now not a single terrorist has been caught or convicted. Afzal Guru, convicted in the 2001 Parliament attack case, has not yet been hanged, the ex-home minister said.

Advani alleged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has 'devalued' the top post as head of the party (Congress) is now getting more importance than the head of the government. "This system exists in Communist regime. But it is not good in a democracy."

The BJP's prime ministerial candidate challenged the UPA government to show one major achievement during its over four years of rule. "I have seen elections since 1952. Every government used to have something to claim as its achievement but the UPA government has none", he added.

Source : Times Of India

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