VHP hits out, asks BJP to come clean on statement over Bilkis Bano rape convicts | Political Pulse News,The Indian Express
In a rejoinder to The Indian Express, the VHP denied any association with those who had felicitated the culprits, and asked the BJP leadership to clarify whether Ilmi’s views were personal or the party’s stand.
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HomePolitical PulseVHP hits out, asks BJP to come clean on statement over Bilkis Bano rape convicts
VHP hits out, asks BJP to come clean on statement over Bilkis Bano rape convicts
In a rejoinder to The Indian Express, the VHP denied any association with those who had felicitated the culprits, and asked the BJP leadership to clarify whether Ilmi’s views were personal or the party’s stand.
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New Delhi | Updated: September 11, 2022 9:46:49 am
In a late-night tweet, Shazia Ilmi said Saturday: “If VHP members had not felicitated them (the convicts), then I stand corrected and apologise for the same.” (Express photo by Rohit Jain Paras)The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Saturday strongly criticised BJP national spokesperson Shazia Ilmi’s article in The Indian Express (Doing right by Bilkis Bano, September 10) where she said that those who felicitated convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case on their release belonged to the VHP while distancing Prime Minister Narendra Modi from it.
In a rejoinder to The Indian Express, the VHP denied any association with those who had felicitated the culprits, and asked the BJP leadership to clarify whether Ilmi’s views were personal or the party’s stand.
In the article that appeared in The Indian Express on Friday, Ilmi, a national spokesperson of the BJP, expressed anguish at the remission of the convicts, saying that as a woman, her “personal sense of justice got betrayed” and that she was “appalled that the guilty in such a heinous crime can get away with a mere 15 years”. At the same time, she argued, the remission decision by the Gujarat government was part of a process in which the Centre had no role.
What the VHP took exception to was Ilmi’s reference to the felicitation of the convicts: “To attribute this to the BJP is particularly strange given the intense acrimony between the Gujarat BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the one hand and the VHP on the other. The VHP is, on record, carrying out a campaign of vilification and defamation against PM Modi, accusing him of ‘destroying Hindu street power’ — perhaps not realising that they were paying tribute to his staunchly non-partisan conduct in matters of law and order. That this felicitation was depraved is undeniable but the question is what exactly did this have to do with the BJP, given the history of acrimony between the two organisations?”
In the note to The Indian Express, VHP national spokesperson Pravesh Kumar Choudhry called Ilmi’s article a “conspiracy to defame VHP”. “She (Ilmi) belongs to an elite section of Lutyens Delhi, infamous for creating false propaganda. She is unaware of the Sangh Parivar’s ideology, especially the VHP, which has done tremendous work for Hindu culture, their assertions, and the support that the Central government under the leadership of Narender Modi has got from the VHP. Moreover, she does not understand the philosophy of Hindutva.”
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