Boycott Chinese consumer goods: VHP

The Vishva Hindu Parishad today asked people to boycott Chinese goods as they were "badly affecting" the Indian industry, particularly small and medium enterprises.
    
"Huge amounts of consumer goods from China are being clandestinely brought into the country to flood its markets and this is badly affecting our economy," VHP International president Ashok Singhal told reporters here.
    
"We urge the people of the country to give up buying and using products made in China," he said.
    
Singhal charged China with waging a proxy war against India, and supplying arms to Maoists, who he described as "anti-national forces wreaking havoc on the country".
    
The VHP leader demanded the Union Government press into service the army and IAF to "finish" Maoists. He termed the UPA as the "weakest" Government since independence.

He severely criticised the resolution against Vande Mataram adopted by the Jamiat-E-Ulema-E-Hind and said: "Home minister P Chidambaram should resign for sharing the same podium that passed the resolution."
    
Singhal also sought "hardest of punishments" to MNS legislators who attacked Samajwadi Party's MLA Abu Asim Azmi for taking oath in Hindi and not in Marathi in the Maharashtra Assembly. "Humiliating our lingua franca is an open treason".