BJP TODAY

September 16--30, 2004 - Vol. 13, No. 18

Congress Women and men have no place to hide their faces
Conspiracy against Uma boomerangs; court discharges her
By our special correspondent

The Puerile conspiracy hatched, apparently under instruction from the president of the Italian National Congress, to turn Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Uma Bharati as a "tainted" politician, has backfired on the Congress with a wham that it has yet to recover from.
The effort of the Chief Minister Dharam Singh of Karnataka to dig up the Hubli Idgah case and go against the decision of the Government led by his predecessor S.M. Krishna to withdraw the cases against Uma and others backfired on them with Shri Mohammed Ismail, Judicial Magistrate. First Class on september 6 saying that he had allowed the application filed in July 2002 seeking consent to withdraw the case and said that all the accused in the case including Uma Bharati were discharged.

This honourable discharge of Sadhvi Uma Bharati came the same day the supreme Court refused permission to the Bihar Government to withdraw cases against one "tainted" Union Minister Mohammad Taslimuddin, belonging to Lalu Prasad's R.J.D.

The Hubli Magistrate also said that he had dismissed the application filed by six interveners opposing the withdrawal of the cases.

Crackers burst and sweet were distributed as soon as it became known that the Hubli Court had discharged Uma honourably, beginning with HubliDharwad in north Karnataka, then in Bangalore and later at the BJP headquarters at 11, Ashok Road, New Delhi.

It may be recalled that the Dharam Singh government had re-opened the cases against Uma Bharati, upon which the court had issued a non-bailable warrant against her. What is more condemnable, the Dharam Singh government had even sent two Police Officers to Bhopal to arrest Uma Bharati.

Umaji, on the other hand, resigned from the CHief Ministership and was present at the swearing ceremony of her successor Shri Babulal Gaur and his colleagues, before leaving for Hubli by train. The more than 36 hours of journey saw huge rallies at the stations enroute and upon reaching Hubli she she surrendered before the court. She was lodged by the Police at a special jail in the Agricultural University Guest House at Dharwad, ten kilometers from Hubli.

Meanwhile, from September 1 onwards, BJP workers stated courting arrest under "Tiranga Jhanda-Vande Mataram" Satyagraha. The Hubli Idgah Maidan case of 1994 was an effort to hoist the National Flag at the Maidan which the local Anjuman had refused to do since long.

Shri. L.K. Advani Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, the party president M. Venkaiah Naidu, senior leader Rajnath Singh, Yashwant Sinha, Arun Jaitely, Sushma Swaraj and others had courted arrest till Sept. 5. After the court, Satyagraha for remaining two days Sept. 6 and 7 were withdrawn.

As Advaniji said after this incident, the Congress Party appears to be working over-time in order to had over political issues to the BJP and the NDA by their senseless acts, no doubt under orders from the Italian-born party president.