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VHP posing `fascist threat': IUML
By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, FEB. 18. The defiant attitude of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad on the issue of construction of a Ram temple posed a ``fascist threat'' to the country and its democratic polity, the Indian Union Muslim League, said today. It strongly criticised the VHP's refusal to recognise the judicial process.

In such a situation the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh Government cannot ``stand transfixed with political paralysis'', they have to act and prevent an ugly situation, G.M. Banatwala, president of the IUML, stated.

His demand was that the carved pillars and other materials for the construction of the temple being moved to the vicinity of the disputed complex in Ayodhya must be ``immediately confiscated'' and the complex should be ``handed over to the Army.''

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