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The Communist Party of India (Marxist) had played a dubious role
like Shakuni in Mahabharata to prevent a mass leader like Tamil
Maanila Congress (TMC) president G K Moopanar from becoming prime
minister, Bharatiya Janata Party MP O Rajagopal said on Sunday.
He told media persons in Chennai that in recent times no one with a
mass following was being allowed to occupy high positions. The BJP
leader said he had predicted two days ago that Moopanar would not
be allowed to take over the prime ministership since he enjoyed
mass following and was a popular leader with strong backing in
Tamil Nadu. I K Gujral has been chosen by the UF because he had no
following. Rajagopal said.
The Communists did not want a stable government at the Centre, and
as long as they were the advisers of the Front, the UF would never
acquire stability, Rajagopal said, adding that the country should
be ready to go in for snap polls within a few months.
The BJP maintains that the President Shankar Dayal Sharma should
follow the 1979 precedent and not invite the new UF leader to form
a government. He pointed out that in 1979, when the Morarji Desai
government was defeated in Lok Sabha, though the then ruling Janata
Party elected a new leader Jagjivan Ram, the then President Neelam
Sanjiva Reddy, did not invited him to form the government as his
party had already been invited and it had lost its chance.
Thereafter, the leader of the opposition Y. B. Chavan (Congress)
was asked if he was ready to form the government. When he declined,
the President gave the opportunity to Charan Singh and not to
Jagjivan Ram, Rajagopal said. This time, too, Sharma should not
invite a new leader from the same party to head the government.
Instead, the President should dissolve the Lok Sabha."
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