BJP flays PM’s offer to J&K ultras

The executive charged the PM with showing scant respect for the Indian constitution and the requirements of national security. It also decried a similar offer made by Gujral to Naga insurgents, on the basis of which a three-month cease-fire has been declared in the North Eastern state.

The national executive wrapped up its deliberations over the weekend with a strongly worded political resolution demanding the ouster of the Gujral government.

The four-page resolution echoed the charges levelled against the PM, the Congress and the Left by party president L K Advani yesterday and lamented the systemic damage being inflicted by what it called “utterly debased parties and their equally debased politicians”.

It defended the BJP-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra and protested the demand for the imposition of President’s Rule in the State. BJP spokesperson Yashwant Sinha told mediapersons later that the unanimous opinion of the executive was that events in Mumbai which resulted in police firing and 10 deaths were “pre-meditated and designed to malign the State Government”. He said the needle of suspicion clearly pointed to the Congress.

The executive adopted an economic resolution yesterday which maintained that swadeshi was the only effective model of economic development for India.

The meet took several other decisions over the weekend. One was to hold an annual training camp for state level office bearers and members of the national executive. The other was to hold the party’s plenary, at which the new president will assume charge, in Uttar Pradesh in November.

The national executive passed a unanimous resolution congratulating Advani on his successful rath yatra and expressed the party’s gratitude to him for the sacrifices he made for it.

Senior leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s speech, which marked the end of the meet, reiterated Advani’s call to the party to prepare in earnest for a mid-term poll. Debunking the secularism slogan of the United Front and the Congress, Vajpayee added that it was losing its efficacy as the dividing line between political parties.