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BJP accuses UF of hijacking mandate - Economic Times
Posted By ashok (ashokvc@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in)
25 June 1996
Title : BJP accuses UF of hijacking mandate
Publication : Economic Times
Date : June 25, 1996
HE NATIONAL executive Of the Bharatiya Janata Party today
accused the ruling United Front government of
'betraying' the people by 'hijacking' the mandate, which
was given by the electorate in BJP's favour, to come to
power.
In its political resolution adopted on the concluding day
of the threeday session, the executive asserted that the
Deve Gowda government, "remote controlled" by the
Congress party, had no relevance to the electoral verdict
of 1996.
The four-page resolution maintained that the mandate was
"obviously" against the Congress. Its strength in
Parliament has been halved, on the 'Personal' level, it
was a mandate for Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, and against
the leadership of Mr P V Narasimha Rao.
"While Mr Vajpayee personifies probity in public life,
Mr Rao symbolises deviousness in polities," the
resolution said.
"Perpetuation of personal power even at the cost of
decimation of his own party was Mr Rao's prime objective,
nepotism and corruption were the hallmarks of his
governance," it underlined. And added with satisfaction
that the electorate has given a "resounding defeat" to
this politics. In fact, Mr Rao has only accelerated the
process of disintegration of the Congress party. Bereft
of power and devoid political confidence, the Congress
today is an utterly demoralised party. The resolution
said about the state of the Congress party at present.
The political resolution said the Lok Sabha elections
also marks the formation of a 13-party coalition, which
notwithstanding such a plethora of parties "is a minority
govemment."
The United Front is actually a "disunited front, and
inherently fragile." It represents political opportunism,
sordid power lust and extreme ideological
contradictions. Its farcical Common Minimum Programme is
a mere camouflage, it is a one point programme to keep
the BJP out of power, the resolution said.
Describing the front as a "curious political
conglomerate," the resolution said the largest politica
segment in the front is the Janata Dal, and it has less
than eight percent of the seats in the Lok Sabha confined
mainly to two states-Karnataka and Bihar. Its political
strength depends upon its ability to create tensions in
society and thus generate a constituency for the party.
Along with its new found ally in Uttar Pradesh - the
Samaiwadi Party, "the two represent politics of casteism,
gangsterism and opportunism."
It also criticised those Congressmen who were opposed to
Mr Narasimha Rao for taking "temporary refuse' in the
United Front. And said they are making a common cause
with their traditional political opponents. Groups like
Tamil Maanila Congress contested the elections on an
anti-Congress, anti-Rao platform. Within days of the
electoral verdict, they betrayed their constituents by
making a common cause with the Congress.
"The moment the leadership issue in the Congress is
resolved, the nation may witness the collapse of the
United Front with these Congressmen returning home," the
resolution cautioned.
The executive also pulled up the communists for having
made "peace with the Congress-corruption in the name of
anti-BJPism" and said these Left parties have "teamed up
with those who represent criminalisation and castelsm."
"Marxist economy and Mr Chidambaram's commitment to a
free market and indiscriminate globalisation can only
produce an impossible cocktail, " the resolution felt.
"Amidst this ideological collapse and moral decay," the
Bip stamps out today as the only stable pole of Indian
politics. Even though the party has not got a majority in
the Parliament, the "groundwell support and desire for
BJP government was evident when the Vajpayee
government
had to resign," it said.
The "phenomenal" growth of the BJP in the last one decade
is attributable to the ideological debate launched by the
BJP on the real content of Indian secularism, the
resolution underlined. "The cultural nationalism
propagated by us (BJP) has stuck a positive cord with the
Indian people," it claimed andreiterated its stand on
construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya. The BJP cannot
jeopardise India's security by permitting an unchecked
infiltration of Bangladeshis into India.
The resolution added tht the BJP had been demanding
enactment of uniform civil code based on the
"constitutional principles of gender equality and the
right to life with dignity." "We have also stood for the
repeal of Article 370 and a ban on cow slaughter."
The resolution said the massive support to the BJP is an
evidence of an increased acceptability of our ideology.
The resolution said the Congress support to the Front
government Is resulting in a "noticeable incre" in the
BJP vote. The results of the three Lok Sabha
constituencies which went to polls after the Vajpayee
government's vote of confidence on May 27 and 28 are
"conspicuous indices of this."
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