* Are you a full-fledged RSS member and do you subscribe to its ideology?
* Do you agree with the late RSS chief M.S. Golwalkar that the minorities cannot become citizens of India and can remain only as honoured guests?
* Do you agree with Mr. Golwalkar's opposition to the introduction of a common civil code?
* Should VHP leader Ashok Singhal be prosecuted for saying than Ayodhya would be repeated if the Muslims don't hand over Kashi and Mathura to the Hindus.
* Do you subscribe to the image that you are just a mukhota (mask) and a loudspeaker of your party?
* Article 370 was introduced in the Constitution of India when your leader, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, was a member of the Nehru Cabinet and he agreed to the introduction of Article 370. Do you disown your leader, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee?
* You have an alliance with Akali Dal. Do you support the Anandpur Sahib Resolution?
* Your spiritual guru, Guru Golwalkar, had in a famous interview to a Marathi daily defended and justified Chaturvarna, the caste system, which he said is essential for the survival of Hinduism. Do you agree?
* Do you deny that in 1942 you apologised before a magistrate for your participation in the 1942 Quit India Movement?
* Do you accept Mahatma Gandhi as the father of the Nation? (Source: The Statesman, 11 January, 1998)
Sonia Gandhi on BJP
Describing the Bharatiya Janata Party and its associated political groupings as the "forces of hatred", Mrs. Sonia declared that India was once again threatened by the same forces which had demolished the Babari Masjid in 1992.
She recalled how just a month before he was assassinated, her husband, Rajiv Gandhi, had told her that "if ever an attempt was made to touch the Masjid, he would stand in front of it and they would have to kill him first. Such was the power of his dedication to a secular India.
She claimed that like all right-thinking Indians, she too was outraged and devastated when the Babari Masjid was demolished. "Our India is threatened today by the same forces which inflicted these wounds on us. We cannot realise our dreams if the energy of our people is wasted on senseless conflicts, communal tension and strife," she said.
"The forces of hatred have not only taken the lives of Mahatma Gandhi and two Prime Ministers, but also of thousands and thousands of our people. This must not continue to happen. India's march towards progress must be guided by reason and compassion", she declared.
Sonia Gandhi on BJP
Describing the Bharatiya Janata Party and its associated political groupings as the "forces of hatred", Mrs. Sonia declared that India was once again threatened by the same forces which had demolished the Babari Masjid in 1992.
She recalled how just a month before he was assassinated, her husband, Rajiv Gandhi, had told her that "if ever an attempt was made to touch the Masjid, he would stand in front of it and they would have to kill him first. Such was the power of his dedication to a secular India.
She claimed that like all right-thinking Indians, she too was outraged and devastated when the Babari Masjid was demolished. "Our India is threatened today by the same forces which inflicted these wounds on us. We cannot realise our dreams if the energy of our people is wasted on senseless conflicts, communal tension and strife," she said.
"The forces of hatred have not only taken the lives of Mahatma Gandhi and two Prime Ministers, but also of thousands and thousands of our people. This must not continue to happen. India's march towards progress must be guided by reason and compassion", she declared.
