Proposed 'Prevention of Communal Violence' Bill anti-Hindu: VHP leader

Terming as anti-Hindu the proposed 'Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Riots' Bill, senior Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Praveen Togadia today said that he will launch a nation-wide agitation against it.

"We have invited saints and monks from all over the country and a meeting will be organised in New Delhi after a week. An all-India meeting is also scheduled on July 2 in Prayag where we after discussing the matter will draw strategy for a large scale agitation against the proposed bill," Togadia said at a press conference here.

"It is an anti-Hindu bill and tilting towards minority aiming at giving 'license' to them to snatch the properties of Hindus and to attack them. We are against the Bill and will discuss it with MPs of all parties including that of Congress," he said.

Togadia also termed Swami Aseemanad, accused in several bomb blast cases, as 'Mahapurish' and said that he was behind bars because he was targeted for his work against religious conversion.