NEW DELHI, July 19: Congress president Sitaram Kesri today again put the Left and the BJP in one bracket, saying the two were speaking the same language to ``undermine'' the Congress.This is the second time in recent times that Kesri has equated the two opposites in the country's political spectrum. ``Whenever the Congress emerges as a powerful party, both these forces try to undermine us,'' he told delegates at the Youth Congress' National Council meeting here.Though the Left asked the Congress to fight communal forces, the leader said, it was not the Congress but the Communists who had sided with the BJP for the sake of power. ``History is witness to it,'' he added. In an unusually mellow mood, Kesri repeatedly referred to his age saying that death was staring at him. He asked the Indian Youth Congress delegates not to let anyone hijack the party and weaken the country.Kesri also flayed BJP leader L K Advani's yatra charging that the party had neither any history of its own nor the glorious tradition of the Congress.Kesri also spoke of the threat to India's borders, saying the frontier regions are now highly vulnerable.He congratulated himself again for pulling down the H D Deve Gowda government, claiming that the decision had been taken in the ``larger interest'' of the country. His big victory in the party's organisational polls, Kesri claimed, was proof that he had done the right thing.The Congress president, however, made no reference to the party's Calcutta plenary session in August which faces a disruption threat from rebel Congress MP Mamata Banerjee. Mamata has threatened to organise a rival rally on the first day of the plenary session and is showing no signs of relenting on the issue as of yet. In the Capital, work on drafting of the Congress resolutions for the plenary session is in progress. Yesterday, a meeting was held, presided over by Pranab Mukherjee, to check the status of the main resolutions.
