Left-UPA talks attempt to divert attention from price rise, says BJP

The BJP has said UPA-Left talks on the Indo-US nuclear deal are “an attempt to divert attention from issues affecting the common man”.

The BJP has said UPA-Left talks on the Indo-US nuclear deal are “an attempt to divert attention from issues affecting the common man”. “It is a cover-up exercise to divert the attention of the public from burning issues like inflation,” senior party leader M Venkaiah Naidu said here on Wednesday.

“If the Left thinks that the deal is useless then why are they engaged in this discussion? They should rather start discussing other issues of public interest like price rise,” he added.

“The Government is headed by an unwilling Prime Minister. He wants to leave office. How can we expect him to take important decisions,” Naidu said. He said his party would vote against the Government “if the deal is put to vote in the monsoon session”.

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Meanwhile, the Central Election Committee (CEC) of the BJP will be meeting on Thursday to take stock of the party’s preparations for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls. The meeting of the party’s CEC would be followed by a meeting of the Central Election Management Committee headed by Naidu. “The CEC is meeting to take a look at the preparation of the party so far and to finetune the activities in the run-up to the polls,” he said.

Meanwhile, the BJP on Wednesday said the party found nothing wrong “in the allotment of forest land to the Amarnath Shrine Board” by the J-K Government.

“If some communities can go for Haj at subsidised rates, why cannot the Amarnath Shrine Board have land alloted from the Government,” said Naidu.

“It is all happening in Jammu and Kashmir. There are people who are opposing land to the Army in the state. They are anti-national elements,” he added.

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