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BJP gets in poll mode, trashes N-deal debate

The BJP is gearing up for the Lok Sabha elections while trashing the Cong-Left tussle over the nuclear deal

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NEW DELHI: The BJP is gearing up for the Lok Sabha elections while trashing the Cong-Left tussle over the nuclear deal as a sham aimed at diverting people’s attention from serious problems. The party also dismissed suggestions that it could support the government on the nuclear deal.

Viewing the prevailing political scenario in which “anything can happen at any time”, the party has said it will initiate the process of working out the how, what and wherefore of polls at a meeting of its election management committee on Thursday.

Sources said a 30-point list of issues identified by the election management committee would be circulated among state representatives. The meetings are slated to be held every week from now on to speed up the process “in view of the fast changing political situation,” said a BJP leader.

Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu said the prevailing situation was dismal, with the prime minister unwilling to continue in office while allies insist the government would and should continue. “How can an unwilling PM grapple with or solve the problems facing the country?” he said.

He said the country was facing grave problems like unbridled inflation, trouble on its borders, turmoil in Kashmir and the north east, an agricultural crisis and commodity shortage. “But the way the government and the Left are talking only about the Indo-US nuclear deal, it is clear they want to divert attention from these issues.”

Blaming the government for mismanagement of the economy, Naidu refuted claims the oil price rise was responsible for inflation and it was happening globally. Citing a report in the June 7 edition of The Economist, he said many non-oil producing countries had inflation well under their control. It was a mere 0.8% in Japan, 1.7 % in Canada, 3% in Britain, France Germany and Malaysia, and 3.6% in Italy, he said.

“The priorities are price rise, shortage of essential items and the agricultural crisis. Why don’t they discuss these issues?” asked Naidu.

Reiterating the BJP’s opposition to the deal “in its present form”, Naidu refuted suggestions that the party could bail out the UPA on the issue. “We have been telling the government that they should take the country into confidence. But the PM has failed to take even allies into confidence, and now he goes knocking on doors saying the deal is in the country’s interest,” he said.

s_rajesh@dnaindia.net
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