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BJP is in a hurry to finish itself: CPI
Hyderabad, Jan 28: Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary A B Bardhan said today that no ``artificial`` propaganda of the ``feel good`` factor would help the NDA in the coming Lok Sabha elections.
Hyderabad, Jan 28: Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary A B Bardhan said today that no ''artificial'' propaganda of the ''feel good'' factor would help the NDA in the coming Lok Sabha elections.
Referring to yesterday's cabinet decision to recommend the dissolution of the 13th Lok Sabha with a view to advancing the polls, he said that the bjp was thinking that it was stealing a march over other parties. But actually it was not so. The BJP was in a hurry to finish itself, he added.
Inaugurating the crucial two-day national council meeting of the CPI at the party's Andhra Pradesh unit headquarters, Maqdoom Bhavan, here, he said the BJP was indulging in a propaganda. All this propaganda needed the due response from the people, who were expected to ''show the door'' to the BJP in the coming elections.
He charged that BJP general secretary Pramod Mahajan was ''pretending'' as if the party was already re-elected to decide about the destiny of the country.
Bardhan said that the NDA was cracking up as seven of its partners had left it in the past one year. In Tamil Nadu, the BJP and the AIADMK, where they had decided to ''work together'' would be isolated as a ''powerful coalition'' comprising secular democratic parties, including the DMK, was emerging.
In the ''much-maligned'' Bihar, electoral alliances between non-BJP secular parties were being worked out and in other states such alliances would be forged.
Claiming that all like-minded left, secular and democratic parties were coming under one platform, he said in Karnataka, the CPI, the CPI(M) and the Janata Dal (S), headed by former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, would have truck to oppose the BJP. The Left parties might not join hands with the Congress in Karnataka, he added.
In the states where the Left parties were dominant, the parties opposed to the NDA combine were coming together.
He said that the coming Lok Sabaha elections would be ''most important'', adding all out efforts would be made to defeat ''communal and fascist'' forces.
The party, during the current two-day national council meeting, would form two to three committees to decide about the election manifesto and other details.
He alleged that recent announcements of the Centre benefitted only a small minority. There was no industrial development during the BJP rule as a result unemployment was growing in the country, he claimed.
Bureau Report
Inaugurating the crucial two-day national council meeting of the CPI at the party's Andhra Pradesh unit headquarters, Maqdoom Bhavan, here, he said the BJP was indulging in a propaganda. All this propaganda needed the due response from the people, who were expected to ''show the door'' to the BJP in the coming elections.
He charged that BJP general secretary Pramod Mahajan was ''pretending'' as if the party was already re-elected to decide about the destiny of the country.
Bardhan said that the NDA was cracking up as seven of its partners had left it in the past one year. In Tamil Nadu, the BJP and the AIADMK, where they had decided to ''work together'' would be isolated as a ''powerful coalition'' comprising secular democratic parties, including the DMK, was emerging.
In the ''much-maligned'' Bihar, electoral alliances between non-BJP secular parties were being worked out and in other states such alliances would be forged.
Claiming that all like-minded left, secular and democratic parties were coming under one platform, he said in Karnataka, the CPI, the CPI(M) and the Janata Dal (S), headed by former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, would have truck to oppose the BJP. The Left parties might not join hands with the Congress in Karnataka, he added.
In the states where the Left parties were dominant, the parties opposed to the NDA combine were coming together.
He said that the coming Lok Sabaha elections would be ''most important'', adding all out efforts would be made to defeat ''communal and fascist'' forces.
The party, during the current two-day national council meeting, would form two to three committees to decide about the election manifesto and other details.
He alleged that recent announcements of the Centre benefitted only a small minority. There was no industrial development during the BJP rule as a result unemployment was growing in the country, he claimed.
Bureau Report