Trying to capitalize on the double-digit inflation rate and spate of terror attacks in the country, the BJP has announced that the party’s slogan in the next Lok Sabha election would be “Save India”- from price rise and “home-grown terrorism.”
Reiterating the party’s position that the Congress-led UPA government was soft on terror, senior BJP leader and co-incharge Nagaland State, Siddharth Nath Singh at a press briefing here Tuesday said the appeasement and vote-bank politics of the Congress party was responsible for rise in home-grown terrorism, which he ascribed to HuJi militants and illegal migrants from Bangladesh.
“For the Congress, there’s only one community that votes,” Siddharth said and alleged that the party was promoting and encouraging “infiltration” of illegal migrants from across the border for their vote bank.
He also said right after the Supreme Court struck down the IM (DT) Act, the Congress amended the Foreigners Act “so that detection of foreign nationals becomes impossible.”
The BJP leader exuded confidence that the party would form the next government at the Centre with a thumping majority since the Congress party was “buckling under pressure of appeasement and vote bank politics.”
On price rise, Siddharth said the country was heading towards recession and a death trap due to inflation, which he alleged was a creation of the UPA Government. He said the Congress owed an explanation to the nation why the party had not been able to tame inflation despite fall in global prices of petroleum products.
Asked on the unabated attacks on Christians by Hindu fundamentalists in Orissa and Karnataka, Siddharth said “the BJP strongly condemns these acts of violence and vandalism, which cannot be condoned or justified. The law must take its own course and the culprits, irrespective of any religion, must be brought to justice.”
While stating that the Bajrang Dal could be banned if found guilty of the attacks, he however ruled out the involvement of RSS in the attacks. “We (BJP) have learnt a lot from the RSS and our ideology are the same, that is, ‘appeasement to none and equality to all.’”
State BJP leaders who attended the press briefing included State BJP president Ato Yepthomi, minister for Forest MC Konyak, former minister Dr. TM Lotha and Imtilemba Sangtam and BJP national executive member Johny Rengma.
Meanwhile, Siddharth announced that the BJP would be taking up a number of agitational programmes to highlight the “misrule” of the UPA Government.
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