Swaraj said her comments were in conformity with the BJP poll manifesto during Lok Sabha elections, which had clearly spelt out the party's stance on the issue, as BJP believed in democratic norms.
BJP will support the majority opinion in the hills and this has been the party's consistent stand, leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said today.
"BJP will not be against the majority opinion. Whatever is the wish of the majority of people in the hills, we will go by that," Swaraj told reporters after a public meeting here, in the West Midnapore district.
Swaraj said her comments were in conformity with the BJP poll manifesto during Lok Sabha elections, which had clearly spelt out the party's stance on the issue, as BJP believed in democratic norms.
BJP MP Jaswant Singh, who represents Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat, had been elected as an independent candidate supported by Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) during the 2009 elections and was later reinstated in the saffron party.
Speaking about price rise and corruption, Swaraj blamed both the CPI(M) and Trinamool Congress for "supporting the successive UPA governments in 2004 and 2009 respectively."
"Both the Marxists and Trinamool are to be blamed for allowing this UPA government to lead the country to ruin in two phases of its rule," she said at the rally while lampooning Trinamool "for not raising its voice against black money and scams rocking the nation now".
Turning to the law and order situation in West Bengal, Swaraj said both Marxists and Trinamool had aided miscreants to let loose reign of terror in different parts of state including 'jangalmahal' (jungle belt of three south Bengal districts dominated by Maoists).
"Both the CPI(M) and Trinamool aided Maoists and allowed their growth and now the situation has got to such a violent phase," Swaraj rued.
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