UF, Congress playing 'childish games' with nation: BJP
The Bharatiya Janata Party today challenged the Congress for an open debate on the Jain Commission report on the Rajiv Gandhi assassination and accused both the Congress and the
United Front of ''pushing the country to the brink of uncertainty''.
BJP general secretary M Venkaiah Naidu alleged that the ruling and the supporting parties were playing ''childish games'' with the nation by ''vainly exploring'' the possibility of ''cobbling together yet another unnatural and undemocratic ruling coalition''.
They were, he added, totally unmindful of the economic and social cost of the collapse of the government.
For the past 17 months, the Congress had been ''blackmailing'' the United Front. First it demanded the ouster of H D Deve Gowda, then former CBI director Joginder Singh and now the Dravida Munnetra Kazagham, he said.
The Congress's blackmailing tactics are not new. In Gujarat, it first blackmailed the Shankersinh Vaghela government by submitting a memorandum to the governor. ''And now they are trying to enter the Rashtriya Janata Party government headed by Dilip Parikh through the back door,'' he said.
The BJP leader cautioned the UF to be aware of the
Congress gameplan.
Naidu said the BJP was of the view
that the Congress attempt to gain sympathy from the fallout of the
Jain Commission report will ''boomarang''.
Referring to developments of the past two days, the BJP leader
said the UF and the Congress have given ''themselves time to invent yet another immoral formula to remain in unearned power''.
Describing Congress vice-president Jitendra Prasada's formula to
float a non-BJP and non-DMK combination to replace the present
UF government as ''fantasy'', Naidu said it exposes the
Congress's desperation to grab power by hook or by crook.
He ridiculed the Congress for ''running scared to face a
full-scale debate'' on the Jain Commission issue in Parliament and
said the reason was simple: it knew that any in depth debate on the
issue would ''fully expose how the Congress has trivialised
and politicised the Jain panel's report for its own ugly intra-party
power struggle''.
The debate, when it takes place, would also unravel the party's own acts of commission and omission that led first to the Indian Peace Keeping Force fiasco and later to Rajiv Gandhi's assassination.
UNI
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