Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsChants of Bharat Mata ki Jai rented the air in the midst of a palpable anti-UPA mood, with speaker after speaker chastising the Central government for allegedly trying to divide the nation on the lines of religion. It was the concluding day of state BJP chief Pon Radhakrishnan’s three-day fast demanding scholarships for poor Hindu children on the lines of those for minority communities at Kattankulathur, about 40 km from here.The party claimed that by introducing the scholarships, schools were becoming a breeding ground for religious conversion. Former state party chief L Ganesan, lauding Radhakrishnan for the fast, claimed that the Congress was following the divide-and-rule policy of the Britishers by dividing the electorate on the lines of religion. Speaker after speaker lashed out at the UPA, the Congress and the DMK. Pondicherry unit leader of BJP S P K Damodar said the UPA was distracting the masses of the nation with its populist schemes. In a jibe aimed apparently at DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, party leader Thamizhisai Soundarrajan said: “When there are those going on hunger protests for half-an-hour, Radhakrishnan went on a fast for three full days for a just cause.” first published:August 19, 2012, 10:54 ISTlast updated:August 19, 2012, 10:54 IST
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Chants of Bharat Mata ki Jai rented the air in the midst of a palpable anti-UPA mood, with speaker after speaker chastising the Central government for allegedly trying to divide the nation on the lines of religion. It was the concluding day of state BJP chief Pon Radhakrishnan’s three-day fast demanding scholarships for poor Hindu children on the lines of those for minority communities at Kattankulathur, about 40 km from here.
The party claimed that by introducing the scholarships, schools were becoming a breeding ground for religious conversion. Former state party chief L Ganesan, lauding Radhakrishnan for the fast, claimed that the Congress was following the divide-and-rule policy of the Britishers by dividing the electorate on the lines of religion. Speaker after speaker lashed out at the UPA, the Congress and the DMK. Pondicherry unit leader of BJP S P K Damodar said the UPA was distracting the masses of the nation with its populist schemes. In a jibe aimed apparently at DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, party leader Thamizhisai Soundarrajan said: “When there are those going on hunger protests for half-an-hour, Radhakrishnan went on a fast for three full days for a just cause.”
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