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BJP not to play communal card in assembly polls: Venkaiah
Chennai, Dec 28: BJP today stressed it would not play the `communal card` during the electioneering for next year`s assembly elections in nine states and the 2004 Lok Sabha polls.
Chennai, Dec 28: BJP today stressed it would not play the "communal card" during the electioneering for next year's assembly elections in nine states and the 2004 Lok Sabha polls.
"Development will be the main plank of our electioneering and we will not whip up emotions," party president M Venkaiah Naidu told a press conference here. "We will fight the elections on the basis of the performance of the NDA government at the Centre," he said. BJP did not want any dilution or deviation from the NDA's agenda for governance to rule the country, the BJP chief said.
"We, as a political party have our own policies but NDA's agenda will not be diluted for governing the country," Naidu said.
He said that his presidential speech at the recent BJP national executive at New Delhi, where he had stated that the party would replicate the Gujarat's experience elsewhere, had been distorted.
What he had stated was that unity, clarity and co-ordinated planning had paid rich dividends in Gujarat and it should be replicated in other states, he clarified.
BJP was not in favour of "Hindu rashtra" but was for "Hindu nation", he said adding that there was a difference between the two.
"Hindu nation" was about revitalising the ancient culture of the country, he said.
Bureau Report
"Development will be the main plank of our electioneering and we will not whip up emotions," party president M Venkaiah Naidu told a press conference here. "We will fight the elections on the basis of the performance of the NDA government at the Centre," he said. BJP did not want any dilution or deviation from the NDA's agenda for governance to rule the country, the BJP chief said.
"We, as a political party have our own policies but NDA's agenda will not be diluted for governing the country," Naidu said.
He said that his presidential speech at the recent BJP national executive at New Delhi, where he had stated that the party would replicate the Gujarat's experience elsewhere, had been distorted.
What he had stated was that unity, clarity and co-ordinated planning had paid rich dividends in Gujarat and it should be replicated in other states, he clarified.
BJP was not in favour of "Hindu rashtra" but was for "Hindu nation", he said adding that there was a difference between the two.
"Hindu nation" was about revitalising the ancient culture of the country, he said.
Bureau Report