Friday, February 19, 2010

[ZESTCaste] BJP trying to woo dalits for cheap political gains: Congress

 

http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-55192.html

BJP trying to woo dalits for cheap political gains: Congress

New Delhi, Feb 19 : The Congress today flayed BJP leader L K Advani
for criticising the UPA goverment on price rise and its proposed
policy on return of people from Pak occupied Kashmir (PoK) and said
the BJP was trying to woo dalits for cheap political gains.

Reacting to the BJP leader's statement that if the elections were held
today the UPA government would loose it on the price rise issue,
Congress spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said, ''Mr L K Advani is
living in a dream world wishing for fresh elections every year as he
is perpetually the Prime Minister in waiting. However, even if we hold
a monthly elections his chance of becoming the Prime Minister will
remain a dream.'' Terming as 'unfair' Mr Advani's criticism of Mr P
Chidambaram's proposed policy on return of people from PoK, he said
the Home Minister has used four to five caliberated words and the
policy is yet to be evolved with process of identification, selection,
separation and documentation, and only once the person pass through
all the test he could come back to Jammu and Kashmir.

''Mr Advani should stop fishing in troubled water especially since he
is a former Home Minister. Mr Advani's tenure as the Home Minister was
unbearably tragic as many terrorist incidents happened and with no
innovations,'' he added.

Regarding BJP leader Nitin Gadkari's recent efforts to woo dalits, he
charged the party with copying the Congress and said the new found
love for the dalits is for cheap political gains.

The BJP had earlier neither taken any disciplinary action against its
leader Arun Shourie when he had criticised the founder of Indian
Constitution B R Ambedkar in his book nor distanced itself from it.

Another BJP leader M M Joshi had said those undergoing religious
conversion should not get the benefit of reservation, he pointed out.

On the other hand the Congress during the past 100 years has supported
the dalit movement and struggled for the downtrodden and now the BJP
is trying to term it as 'meant for Photo-ops'.

During the Congress regime a Dalit woman has become the Lok Sabha
speaker while post of President and the Supreme Court Chief Justice
has been occupied by a member of the dalit community.

''We do not need to reiterate these issues but the BJP is doing all
the show off which the people of the country would reject,'' he added.

--UNI

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