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Not Hindutva but crime to be BJP's poll agenda in UP: Uma

PTI | By, Lucknow
Jun 22, 2011 03:05 PM IST

BJP leader Uma Bharti on Wednesday said though the party has faith in Hindutva and the Ram temple issue, they would not be its political agenda for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections scheduled for early next year.

BJP leader Uma Bharti on Wednesday said though the party has faith in Hindutva and the Ram temple issue, they would not be its political agenda for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections scheduled for early next year.

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"I have faith in Hindutva and Ram. We want Ram rajya here. The issue of Ram temple is of faith but it's not the party's political agenda for the state. We will focus on crime and corruption, which would be our agenda for the 2012 polls," Bharti, who is BJP incharge of Uttar Pradesh, told reporters here.

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"I have never compromised with Hindutva and the Ram temple issue. Had I done so when I was not in BJP for about five and a half years, my condition would have been better," she said, adding, "The discrepancies and corruption in development (in UP) will be exposed by the party."

When asked about Congress also raking up the issues of corruption and crime, she said that party itself had to give answers on issues of corruption and rising inflation in the UPA regime at the Centre.

"Chor ki taraf chor ungli nahi utha sakta. Ye kaam sipahi ka hai (A thief cannot point a finger at another thief.. It can be done by a policeman)," she said.

Terming AICC general secretary and UP incharge Digvijay Singh as a "stepney" of Rahul Gandhi, Bharti claimed that Singh does not have any value in the state.

"He is stepney of Rahul Gandhi...he does not have any value here (in Uttar Pradesh)... It's a coincidence that I defeat him wherever he goes. I defeated him in MP and then in Bihar, where he was incharge...and now its the turn of UP," she said.

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