New Delhi, November 25
The BJP is resorting to Hindutva in a big way to reinforce its election campaign in the Delhi assembly elections in the final lap of the campaign beginning today.

A series of four public meetings have been lined up today for the “Hindu Hriday Samrat (The monarch that rules the Hindu hearts), as Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is referred to in BJP/Sangh circles, for his ability to attract crowds and whip up passions.

It is another thing that at least one of them was cancelled last minute ostensibly for lack of security clearance.

The next day, the penultimate day of the campaign, hundreds of sadhus, and sants owing allegiance to the VHP, will descend on the capital and take out rallies from six different corners of Delhi, covering East, West, North, South as also Yamuna Vihar and Jhandewalan in Central Delhi.

VHP president Ashok Singhal made this announcement here today. He debunked the Maharashtra ATS charges against the Malegaon blast accused as false and fictitious with an eye on the current assembly elections in Delhi and other states.

He charged Congress president Sonia Gandhi, a Christian, of having hatched this conspiracy to defame the Hindus at the behest of the Pope.He alleged that Gandhi had links with an underground Catholic outfit “Opus Dei” and was out to malign and destroy the Hindus.

Referring to the current elections Singhal said, “I call upon the people to give a fitting reply to it.” Rejecting the involvement of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Shrikant Purohit and others in the Malegaon blasts, the VHP president said, “The day a Hindu becomes a terrorist we should take that day would be the one when the Third World War would take place.”

As for Modi, his public rallies were earlier slated for Sunday. But last minute these were rescheduled for today.

Sources said Modi’s programme was changed at the last minute after the BJP learnt that the rallies of both Congress president Sonia Gandhi and BSP chief Mayawati were already slated for the same day and the party believed that their star speaker Modi should have a total field day.