BJP

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has strongly objected to the appointment of Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh as a member of the National Integration Council (NIC). In a press release issued in the Capital, the party has termed the appointment highly objectionable.

"It is unfortunate that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appointed a person to the National Integration Council who is working as a force of disintegration in the country and creating a divide in the society by his shameless and thoughtless utterances," the BJP said. "The appointment of such a person has come as a shock; one who while glorifying terrorists certifies suspects as innocent and raises doubts over the great sacrifice of Inspector M C Sharma in the Jamia Nagar encounter," the party added.

The BJP said that the appointment was a pay back for all the services that have been rendered by Amar Singh for the survival of the UPA government by manufacturing majority through a cash for votes scandal. "It is ironical that a person, whom the Congress once described as a 'mentally imbalanced' person for his illogical doubts on the Jamia Nagar encounter, has now been appointed to this important body," the BJP said.

"It also appears that the Prime Minister wants to use the 'special services' of Amar Singh to vociferously lead the demand for banning the Bajrang Dal at the forthcoming NIC meeting scheduled on October 13," it charged. The BJP said that it was pitiable and condemnable that the government which survives because of SIMI supporters are contemplating a ban on the Bajrang Dal only for the sake of vote bank politics.

"The government, which should have banned the IM (Indian Mujahideen) has not done its duty towards the nation and seems to be engaging itself in a course of complete disastrous politics," the BJP accused.