BJP calls for non-Congress alliance in state

Express News Service
First Published : 29 Nov 2010 05:03:33 AM IST
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HYDERABAD: Senior BJP leader and Opposition leader in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley today called upon the non-Congress parties in the state to rise to the occasion and support the BJP-led NDA.

Though he did not name any party, Jaitley's call was apparently to the main Opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP).

At a symposium on 'Building a Nation - politics of fragmentation' here today, Jaitley said AP was the fastest growing state in the country. There was a crying need for a separate Telangana state. The 'paralysed' government could not take any decision on this. The projects were also slowing down in the state. There was also a need to root out the corrupt Congress at the Centre, he said, and called upon the non-Congress parties to come together to achieve these objectives.

Jaitley said the Third Front would not succeed in the future, as it would lose its nucleus after the West Bengal and Kerala elections. "Bipolar politics will emerge in the country and the NDA is the only alternative to the UPA," Jaitley said.

Ideological differences would not come in the way to work together, he said citing that the BJP had ideological differences with some parties in the NDA but the combine still worked in unity. "If there are no differences, there won't be separate parties at all," he analysed. (From Jaitley's reference to the Third Front experiment, analysts felt that it was a call given to the TDP.) The Congress' dynasty politics was a negation of democracy and meritocracy in politics, he said and criticised the Congress for adopting double standards on dynasty issue. "The Congress is encouraging dynasty at Delhi and opposing the same in Andhra Pradesh. One party cannot have two theories on the same subject.

Why not a dynasty in AP? There is a contradiction in Congress today," Jaitley said.

On the 2-G Spectrum row, Jaitley said it was not all about auditing or accounting problems. One should understand the dimensions of the scam and how the power brokers wanted Telecom Ministry for one particular party, he said. "Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has developed infrastructure to cover up all the scams," he alleged. On the recent statements by Rahul Gandhi on RSS and Narendra Modi, he said: "Ignorance is bliss." BJP senior leaders Bangaru Lakshman, M Venkaiah Naidu and state president G Kishan Reddy were among those present.