Delhi, May 12: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has planned a two-month countrywide campaign to keep alive issues that led to the fall of his government.During the tour, Vajpayee will address a series of public meetings with special emphasis on Southern states, according to party sources. Vajpayee's tour schedule has been chalked out by his confidante, Information and Broadcasting Minister Pramod Mahajan.Home Minister L K Advani will also embark on a countrywide tour soon after the co-ordination committee meeting of the BJP and allies scheduled for May 15, but unlike Vajpayee, he will only address meetings of party workers, BJP sources said.The BJP has decided to press into service its two star campaigners at least three months before the election campaign will start, to keep the "sympathy wave" for Vajpayee intact.The BJP's election strategy appears to have been designed to discredit both the Congress and Communists, while projecting BJP-led alliance unity and its achievements during 13 months in power.An indication of the BJP's electoral strategy was given today by party general secretary M Venkaiah Naidu, who accused the Congress of indulging in doublespeak: talking of one-party rule on the one hand, and continuing talks for electoral alliance with regional parties like the AIADMK on the other.``The Congress is unlikely to have an address of its own in any State. It's address will be `care of' RJD in Bihar, care of AIADMK in Tamil Nadu, care of BSP in Uttar Pradesh and so on,'' Naidu said.The BJP is also likely to highlight differences between the Congress and Communists during its election campaign. While the Congress feels deceived by other parties (like the Samajwadi Party, RSP and Forward Block), the Communists feel deceived by the Congress due to the latter's non-cooperation in formation of a Third Front-led Government. ``We appeal to both parties, not to deceive the people,'' Naidu said.The party will contrast the Opposition's disunity with unity of the BJP-led front, which it says will contest on a common manifesto (National Agenda for Governance) and have a joint campaign.Naidu asked the Congress to explain whether it perceived regional parties a threat to national security and whether the party was in favour of one-party rule or a coalition Government.The BJP's Election Management Committee meeting here on Friday is expected to finalise the issues and campaign strategy, which would then be discussed in the coordination committee meeting of the BJP and its allies the next day.
