Via PTI
NAGPUR: A most sensible functionary of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Friday slammed Congress veteran Shivraj Patil over his declare that the Bhagavad Gita additionally spoke of jihad and mentioned the remarks have been made to garner reasonable exposure and create confusion within the society.
Speaking to newshounds right here, VHP secretary-general Milind Parande accused the previous Union minister of indulging in minority appeasement.
Patil on Thursday claimed the concept that of jihad (holy warfare) was once no longer simply in Islam but additionally within the Bhagavad Gita and Christianity.
Talking on the release of Congress veteran and previous Union minister Mohsina Kidwai’s biography, the previous Lok Sabha Speaker mentioned that there’s numerous dialogue of jihad within the faith of Islam.
“It isn’t simply within the Quran, however within the Mahabharata additionally, the phase in Gita, Shri Krishna additionally talks of jihad to Arjun and this factor is not only within the Quran or the Gita but additionally in Christianity,” he claimed in his remarks.
Requested about Patil’s feedback, Parande mentioned they have been irresponsible and geared toward garnering reasonable exposure and growing confusion within the society.
“I do not know which Gita he (Patil) has learn. There’s no point out of jihad within the Gita,” the VHP chief mentioned.
Requested concerning the alleged attack on contributors from a minority group through Bajrang Dal staff at a ‘garba’ programme all over the Navratri competition in Ahmedabad, the VHP chief feigned lack of know-how concerning the incident and mentioned he does no longer know what precisely took place there.
Parande, alternatively, maintained contributors from a specific group input venues of such programmes with false names.
“There can have been such incidents out of pleasure. In a different way, we simply create consciousness. We will be able to have to look whether or not any such factor in fact took place as the whole lot that is available in information isn’t true,” mentioned the VHP chief.
Requested a couple of mass non secular conversion tournament held in New Delhi previous this month, Parande mentioned “The Buddhist group is our personal and therefore we imagine its contributors as our personal.”
“So far as the Vishva Hindu Parishad is anxious, it considers each and every faith that took start in India – be it Buddhism, Jainism or Sikhism – as its personal. We consider that Buddhists also are our personal,” he mentioned.
NAGPUR: A most sensible functionary of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Friday slammed Congress veteran Shivraj Patil over his declare that the Bhagavad Gita additionally spoke of jihad and mentioned the remarks have been made to garner reasonable exposure and create confusion within the society.
Speaking to newshounds right here, VHP secretary-general Milind Parande accused the previous Union minister of indulging in minority appeasement.
Patil on Thursday claimed the concept that of jihad (holy warfare) was once no longer simply in Islam but additionally within the Bhagavad Gita and Christianity.
Talking on the release of Congress veteran and previous Union minister Mohsina Kidwai’s biography, the previous Lok Sabha Speaker mentioned that there’s numerous dialogue of jihad within the faith of Islam.
“It isn’t simply within the Quran, however within the Mahabharata additionally, the phase in Gita, Shri Krishna additionally talks of jihad to Arjun and this factor is not only within the Quran or the Gita but additionally in Christianity,” he claimed in his remarks.
Requested about Patil’s feedback, Parande mentioned they have been irresponsible and geared toward garnering reasonable exposure and growing confusion within the society.
“I do not know which Gita he (Patil) has learn. There’s no point out of jihad within the Gita,” the VHP chief mentioned.
Requested concerning the alleged attack on contributors from a minority group through Bajrang Dal staff at a ‘garba’ programme all over the Navratri competition in Ahmedabad, the VHP chief feigned lack of know-how concerning the incident and mentioned he does no longer know what precisely took place there.
Parande, alternatively, maintained contributors from a specific group input venues of such programmes with false names.
“There can have been such incidents out of pleasure. In a different way, we simply create consciousness. We will be able to have to look whether or not any such factor in fact took place as the whole lot that is available in information isn’t true,” mentioned the VHP chief.
Requested a couple of mass non secular conversion tournament held in New Delhi previous this month, Parande mentioned “The Buddhist group is our personal and therefore we imagine its contributors as our personal.”
“So far as the Vishva Hindu Parishad is anxious, it considers each and every faith that took start in India – be it Buddhism, Jainism or Sikhism – as its personal. We consider that Buddhists also are our personal,” he mentioned.
