Demolition: Swamy faults Centre's silence

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Demolition: Swamy faults Centre's silence

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CHENNAI: Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Sunday found

fault with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for not objecting to the

demolition of a temple in Malaysia.

 

"When a newspaper in Denmark published an offensive cartoon

caricaturing the Prophet... the Prime Minister of India Manmohan

Singh called up the Denmark Prime Minister to object to the

publication of the cartoon," he said and added that after the "100-

year-old Malaimel Sri Selva Kaliamman temple in Kuala Lumpur" was

demolished, "the Prime Minister did not even issue a statement, much

less call up the Malaysian PM."

 

Addressing presspersons here, he claimed that this was the second

Hindu temple overseas to be bulldozed in recent months. Earlier, a

Krishna temple in Moscow was demolished, he added.

 

Dr. Swamy described the United Progressive Alliance Government's

idea of "secularism" as a "one way obligation" and said that Hindus

were ``under siege'' from international forces.

 

He said that UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's nomination should be

rejected because it was not in order. In the Register of Citizens

containing the names of those granted Indian citizenship, there was

no one by that name.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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