‘Gehlot to see trishuls even in dreams’

‘‘Let the Congress act, we will respond. Now everywhere Gehlot goes, there will be trishuls, on T-shirts, caps, homes and women’s clothes. Every alternate day one Rajasthan village will receive trishuls. Gehlot — he made so much hungama — is going to dream of trishuls,’’ chuckled the VHP international secretary.

‘‘Rajasthan’s government says it is alright to keep a trishul in a temple or house. How does it become a weapon if a youth carries it in the bazaar?’’ he asked.

Quick to refute Deputy PM L.K. Advani’s comment that the VHP’s trishul diksha campaign in Rajasthan is ‘‘thoughtless’’, Togadia said the mahayojana was indeed well-thought.

‘‘We will not stop if some do not join us and remain aloof. Or because the Congress is behaving like a Muslim League. Why don’t they apply POTA on jehadis in Jammu and Kashmir?’’

The Parishad, which insists that the current programme is not aimed at Rajasthan Assembly polls, has intensified an induction programme targeted at 30 lakh youths, with the distribution of another five lakh trishuls/ over the year. Five lakh have already been distributed.