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The BJP on Tuesday said the UPA Government has no right to stay 8220;even for a day,8221; and sought the ouster of the 8220;tottering8221; government.

The BJP on Tuesday said the UPA Government has no right to stay 8220;even for a day,8221; and sought the ouster of the 8220;tottering8221; government. The BJP political resolution also accused the UPA of practicing divisive vote-bank politics by incentivising conversion of Dalits to Islam and Christianity.

8220;The Sachar Commission recommendations constitute the most divisive step ever initiated by any government in independent India,8221; the political resolution adopted at the party8217;s National Council meeting said, giving a call to the people to remove the Congress-led regime at the Centre.

Initiating a discussion on the resolution, BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley said communal reservations and communal budgeting are a 8220;remedy worse than the problem being addressed.8221; The resolution said the 15 per cent allocation in the plan expenditure on the basis of religion will set a 8220;divisive precedent8221; in the country.

Jaitley said 8220;never in history has the impact of the Centre been so negligible. Never has India witnessed such political ineffectiveness.8221;

Attacking the Left parties, the resolution said they put on a 8220;facade of opposition8221; to the Indo-US nuclear deal, but were 8220;unable to strike8221; at the UPA when it persisted and still persists with the accord.

Terming the role of the Left parties ever since the formation of the UPA Government as 8220;dubious8221;, the BJP said the Left started off with a clever strategy of wanting to influence government policies from inside and attempting to occupy the opposition space outside. 8220;But Left became a victim of its own cleverness. Its threats to the UPA proved empty,8221; said Jaitley.

The resolution said the Left was always willing to proclaim, but unwilling to strike. 8220;Its hypocrisy was exposed. From the nuclear deal to the economic policies of the UPA, it repeatedly compromised its position8221;.

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Senior leader Sushma Swaraj asked local units to be prepared for alliances. She said the people who talk against alliances often do so for personal reasons, and they should look at the larger interests of the party. 8220;We must realise that alliances have helped the party in many states where our strength is less. The question that you should ask before opposing an alliance proposal is how many seats is the party going to gain by it,8221; she said.

L K Advani suggested that the NDA could win the next polls, as the BJP and its allies had won 361 of the Lok Sabha seats at one time or another in the last 20 years.