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BJP's 'big push' strategy for South - Financial Express
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24 June 1996
Title : BJP's `big push' strategy for South
Author : FE NEWS SERVICE
Publication : Financial Express
Date : June 24, 1996
AFTER three days of marathon deliberations, the Bharatiya
janata Party formulated a 'big push' expansionist
strategy for the eastern and the southern parts of the
country.
Between 15 to 20 leaders, with good oratory skills,
including Atal Behari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani,
will campaign country wide from July 15 to August 1 5 to
"sharpen the ongoing ideological debate on start.
suchita, samrasta, suraksha and swadeshi", which is
synonymous with the party's philosophy of "cultural
nationalisms.
The BJP brass will concentrate in the east and
thehitherto regarded as BJP's Achilles heel.
"We bare by got seven seats out of the 200 odd Lok Sabha
seats in these two regions in the 11 general
elections." BJP President Lal Krishna Advani told a news
conference here on Sunday. The zonal meeting for cast
and south have been fixed for next month.
At the cast zone meeting at Calcutta from July 20 to 21,
all the leaders from cast and north-eastern states will
interact with the national leadership and arrive at a
consensus on an expansionist strategy based on a blend
of local and national issues. Similarly, a meeting of
leaders and senior cadres of the southern states will be
held at Bangalore on July 27 and 28.
"We will emphasise on two themes cultural nationalism
versus pseudo-secularism and the verdict of 1996 and how
it was hijacked. Both the themes are interrelated,"
Advani said.
BJP leaders Venkaiah Naidu, Sushma Swaraj and Suraj
Bhan
were also present at the conference. Advani said that a
"radical metamorphosis in the political scenario" has
taken place with the verdict of 1996 and, in future,
politics will be bifurcated into camps either friendly or
hostile to the BJP.
The political resolution released by Advani
stated: "The phenomenal growth of the BJP in the last
one decade is attributable to the ideological debate
launched by it on the real content of Indian secularism."
With the addition of the resolution by the BJP national
executive on Sunday, Hindutva was back on the
centrestage in the BJP political arena in all its hue
albeit indirectly.
The resolution stated in unequivocal terms: "The BJP is
committed to the construction of Ram Temple at Ayodhya.
It cannot jeopardise India's security by permitting an
unchecked infiltration of Bangladeshis into lndia. The
BJP has always demanded the enactment of a uniform civil
code based on the constitutional principles of gender
equality and the right to life and dignity. We have
always stood for the repeal of Article 370 and ban on
cow slaughter. "
Specifically on the Ayodhya imbroglio, Advani said that a
legal solution to it largely emotive issue was not
possible though the BJP would respect the judicial
verdict. A solution is possible either through it
legislative enactment or through negotiations.
A Ram Mandir should be built at Ayodhya, Advani said in
response to a query its to whether a national monument
could be built at the sacred site of the Hindus which
could be acceptable to people of all faiths.
The resolution, which was more or less and indictment of
the UF and Congress party alliance, made a frontal attack
against Congress president Narasimha Rao. "On
the personal level, the verdict of 1996 was a mandate for
Atal Behari Vajpeyee and against the leadership of P V
Narsimha Rao. While Vajpayee signifies probity in public
life, Rao symbolises deviousness in politics."
"Rao has only accelerated the process of disintegration
of the Congress party Bind what is more significant is
that the moment the leadership issue in the Congress is
resolved, the nation may witness the collapse of the
United Front with the rebelCongressmen returning home".
The four-page document states that United Front is the
creation of ideologies compromises and political
opportunism.
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