Congress, Left in unholy alliance, says BJP

INDORE, NOV 15: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Home Minister L K Advani today launched a concerted attack on the warming of relatio...

INDORE, NOV 15: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Home Minister L K Advani today launched a concerted attack on the warming of relations between the Congress and the Left parties, charging them with indulging in a power game to topple the BJP-led Government.

The Congress and its “overt and covert” allies were rejected in the general elections but instead of respecting the verdict, the party is “showing unseeemly hunger for power,” he said in a statement issued at a press conference in an unspecified reference to the sharing of a common dais by Congress president Sonia Gandhi and CPM leader Jyoti Basu two days ago.

Advani, in a forthright reference to the coming together of Gandhi and Basu in Delhi on Friday, said the “unholy alliance” between the two parties was with the “sole intention to prevent the Vajpayee Government from fighting corruption.” Vajpayee said the Congress has found an unnatural ally in the Communists whose “record of betrayal of national interests is well-known”.

Atan election meeting in Pali, Rajasthan, Advani said the coming together of the Congress and the Left reminded him of their alliance against Jayaprakash Narain 25 years ago. Vajpayee said “the goebbelsian propaganda” that the BJP-led Government threatened communal harmony had been “exposed” as there had not been any communal riot since it came to power.

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