The BJP on Monday ridiculed the remarks of CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat that there will be no mid-term polls, saying the people were watching the "drama and tamasha".
NEW DELHI: The BJP on Monday ridiculed the remarks of CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat that there will be no mid-term polls, saying the people were watching the "drama and tamasha" being played by the Congress and the Left Parties.
"We want to know how long this drama and tamasha will go on," senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu said, reacting to Karat's statement that the next Lok Sabha electons will be held in 2009 as per schedule.
He said BJP will be happy if "this lame duck government" continues, "as they (UPA) will give us some more points by making more mistakes. We have the patience to wait till 2009".
Karat on Sunday had said in Chandigarh that despite tensions between the UPA government and CPI-M, which gives it outside support, on the Indo-US nuclear deal, the next general elections will be held as per schedule in 2009.
Naidu said since Congress and the Communists could not be believed, BJP has embarked upon galvanising the workers at the grassroots level so that the party could face the coming Lok Sabha elections any time.
He said nation-wide campaign by senior leaders would be undertaken from October one to 15 and all the Lok Sabha constituencies would be covered in phases from October 25 to January 15 to gear up the poll machinery. A rally has also been planned before Parliament House on November 19, he said.
Naidu also pooh-poohed Karat's comments that senior BJP leader L K Advani must be having "divine powers" to predict possibility of snap polls.
Senior party leaders Ravi Shankar Prasad, Prakash Javdekar and Rajiv Pratap Rudy were also present.
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