
After resigning from the Cabinet, former Union minister Ramvilas Paswan today paid his first visit to Bihar and told party workers that he would now concentrate on building the party.
At a dand-bethak, Paswan, touching on subjects from Gujarat to Ayodhya, said the party would provide a third front and emerge stronger from the experience. 8216;8216;I have now come to get the blessings from the people of my state to start the fight against Fascist forces,8217;8217; he said.
Paswan plans to go to Gujarat next as part of his drive. He said that even within BJP, there were those who were against the policies which were being proposed. On Mayawati8217;s criticism of his resignation, he retorted, 8216;8216;She used to say that I was in BJP8217;s lap, now who is in BJP8217;s lap8217;8217;, adding that she had not raised any issues and had got the chief ministership on a platter.
He also said that any talk of alliances with any other party was premature at this juncture and added that he would concentrate on fighting communalism. He also denied that he had held meetings with Congress president Sonia Gandhi. 8216;8216;There is no talk of alliances. We Will fight alone,8217;8217; he said. Lashing out at Laloo Yadav, Paswan told his supporters that Laloo8217;s talk of pulling the government down was all a front and that there was a tacit understanding between them.
8216;8216;Laloo Prasad Yadav and BJP are together. He Laloo knows that the day BJP falls, he will be in trouble,8217;8217; he said. Giving an instance of the BJP government8217;s double speak on Ayodhya, Paswan said though Attorney General Soli Sorabjee maintained that he intervened in the Ayodhya case in the Supreme Court on his own, he had information that the AG was told to take the pro-Vishwa Hindu Parishad line by the Central Government.