GUWAHATI: The tribal girl Lakshmi Oraon, a tea garden worker who was stripped by hoodlums here in November last year, has decided to fight thenext 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 —...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
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 ofminorities."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...
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