Nepal a win for Indian communists and a loss for BJP - but look at people of Nepal they are happier
Media Release
May 20, 2006

The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday shed tears at Nepal ceasing to be the world's only Hindu kingdom and regretted as "unfortunate" Nepal's Parliament linking up the monarchy with the status of the Hindu state.

Opposition leader Jaswant Singh told the Rajya Sabha that he "feels diminished" to see the death of the Hindu kingdom and told those protesting for not hailing Nepal becoming a secular state that he need not give explanation why he feels diminished.

Jaswant Singh's remarks came in the course of his special mention during the zero hour on the government's deliberate silence on the development in the region concerning Iran and the neighbourly country because of what he described as the U.S. pressure.

CPI(M) member Sitaram Yechuri was quick to ridicule Jaswant Singh for his remarks on Nepal and said the House should rather congratulate Nepal's parliament for restoring democracy and giving a secular character to the state. At the BJP's official press briefing, party spokesman Vijay Kumar Malhotra decried those happy at Nepal ceasing to be the only Hindu state. There are some 50 Islamic nations and none objects and hence why one should object to one Hindu nation, he asked. Though the BJP does not want India to be a theological state, its 84 per cent population is Hindus and hence it is practically a Hindu state, Prof. Malhotra said.

Asked if he questions the secular status of India, Malhotra shot back that there is no difference between Hinduism and secularism. "Nobody can deny that India is a Hindu-majority state," he affirmed while making it clear that the BJP is not for a "majhabi raj" as it stands for equality to all religions.

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