Linking terror with any community improper: BJP

New Delhi, Nov 26, 2008: BJP sought to reach out to Muslim voters, saying linking terrorism with the Muslim community was improper and asked for their vote to come back to power. Addressing series of election meetings in the Capital, party president Rajnath Singh disapproved linking Muslims with terrorism, saying "terror has no religion. Hence no one should link any community to such acts".

He also attacked the government for failing to bring a stringent act to prevent such attacks.

"After 9/11, even US and England came out with strong anti-terror laws. However, the UPA government is afraid of taking such a step because it fears that Muslims voters may get annoyed with it," Singh said.

BJP's Prime Ministerial face L K Advani, at a separate election meeting, also accused the government of "record failure" in tackling terrorism and said UPA has brought bad name to the Hindus by coining a new word "Hindu terrorism".

He asked voters to give "some rest" to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi saying their government had "betrayed" the common man.

Addressing the election meetings, his first in the national capital this evening, the top BJP leader said his party is ready to take over from the Congress and asked the electorate to vote for his party contending that it would be the "vote for nationalism".

"A wise voter always measures the government and accordingly decides whether to punish or reward. I would urge to decide to give up with this government which had done nothing but misgovernance," Advani said at the meeting in Budh Vihar in north Delhi.