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ShareRanchi: BJP has been suffering from a leadership crisis and its ranks are in disarray, AICC General Secretary, Digvijay Singh said today.
"See the situation in the BJP. There is no uniformity of ideals in its ranks. Struggle for leadership is on," Singh told a news conference here.
Asserting that the Congress has taken all sections of people with it, he accused the BJP of cheating the people in the name of religion and communal politics.
Under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi, the party had reached out to the people and the Manmohan Singh government had plans to amend the 1894 Land Acquisition Act which would benefit the land-owners in case of land acquisition, the former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh said.
Several anti- land acquisition groups are active in Jharkhand in the wake of successive governments signing over 70 MoUs for industrilisation.
Singh charged the BJP with removing former Chief Minister, Babulal Marandi in 2003 under controversial circumstances, adding everyone knew the reason behind his replacement.
The Congress and Babulal Marandi's Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantric) have reached seat adjustment for the 81-seat assembly polls from November 25. While Congress will fight for 62 seats, JVM will fight for 19.
Marandi was the first chief minister of Jharkhand when he headed the BJP-led NDA from November, 2000 to March 2003 before he was replaced by another BJP leader Arjun Munda.
He broke away from the BJP in 2007 and floated JVM-P and the party had fought alone during the Lok Sabha polls, maintaining equi-distance from Congress and BJP.
Asked who would be the chief ministerial candidate for the alliance if it got mandate, Singh said Congress had never robbed the right of elected MLAs of chosing their leader.
