Hang Afzal if Pak Govt executes Sarabjit Singh: BJP

New Delhi, March 18: The BJP on Tuesday asked the government to ensure release of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who is on death row in Pakistan. "It is unfortunate that Sarabjit Singh, who has not even been identified for any act of violence, is being hanged in Pakistan while in India we are not ready to carry out the death sentence given to Afzal guru, whose guilt has been upheld (by the courts)," party leader Vijay Kumar Malhotra told reporters here. Hardening his stand, the BJP leader also said that if we fail to save Sarabjit Singh from gallows, we should also hang Afzal guru. Malhotra, after a Parliamentary party meeting, said the saffron party has demanded that the government should take up the matter with Pakistan and do all that was needful to secure the release of Singh. The party has also urged the government to build pressure on the international community through the United Nations to find an amicable solution to the Chinese crackdown in Tibet.


We should hang Afzal even if Sarabjit Singh is freed. But if Pakistan wants Afzal for Sarabjit's release, so be it. Let Afzal go to Pakistan along with all his supporters in India. Good riddance. In fact we should think of a population transfer - let all who are unable to sing Vande Mataram go to Pakistan and let us honourably settle all Hindus of Pakistan in India. But an anti-Hindu UPA government will not be able to do this - we need a nationalistic government to come to power.