Surjeet for UF-Cong coordination panel

“Its leaders should ponder why so many of their MLAs flocked to the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh,” he today told reporters at the end of the three-day meeting of the central committee. He asked them to take a firm position on secularism, while giving up their wrong approach on the issue, adopted in the past.

The central committee came out strongly against a section of Congressmen expressing their desire to join the Union Government. “The move will not help the party to check its decline,” Surjeet asserted.

In keeping with its oft-repeated stand, the central committee also expressed dissatisfaction over the economic policies being pursued by the UF Government, which had failed to revamp the public distribution system by making a provision for 20 kgs of foodgrains per month for families living below the poverty line through the targeted public distribution system (TPDS).

The party was strongly critical of the UF Government for its failure to enact several long-awaited bills, prominent among them being the bill seeking reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies, agricultural workers bill, the Lok Pal and the one seeking recognition of trade unions by a secret ballot.