MUMBAI, JULY 28: National general secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Venkiah Naidu has asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi to tell the nation if her party had given up the Pachmarhi declaration of 1998. Addressing the press at the BJP office here today, Naidu said the Congress had ``no address of its own in the 270 constituencies'' of the Lok Sabha, where it is seeking a poll pact with various parties, and has all but given up its plank of one party rule.Taking a dig at AIADMK chief Jayalalitha, with whom the Congress is about to align in Tamil Nadu, Naidu said, ``Stability and Jayalalitha don't go together.'' The Congress is going to have to contend with the likes of Laloo, when the Pachmarhi resolutions staunchly declared that the party would have no truck with corrupt and casteist forces, Naidu said.Asked to comment on the EC's decision barring Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray from casting his vote, Naidu said it was `disproportionate' and `unusual'.Answering questions from the media about the Janata Dal parivar joining the NDA, and its implications in Karnataka, Naidu said the reported statement of George Fernandes that he was walking out of the NDA was false and unconfirmed. He said the BJP did not suspect its allies, nor had it tried to interfere in the internal affairs of the parties in question.He said Janata Dal's proposal to join the NDA would be considered once it got crystallised.Naidu also said the Communists, who were speaking in different voices should make up their minds about the Congress.To a query about the Left parties and the Congress trying to make an issue of the telecom bailout package, Naidu charged Pranab Mukherjee of the Congress and Somnath Chaterjee of the CPI (M) of speaking untruths. He quoted two letters written by Mukherjee and Chatterjee to the prime minister, earlier this year seeking the restoration of the licences which were terminated and considering the inclusion of existing operators in the revenue sharing formula.
