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NEW DELHI, July 10: In one hundred days of its “misrule” the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has pushed the country back by one hundred years, claimed Manish Tewari, the youth Congress president while alleging that the `stable government, able leader’ slogan of the party had been reduced to a farce.
He announced a three-phase programme to bring to light the “follies” of the BJP government too. “In each and every sphere, be it in the international fora or the economic front, the BJP led coalition government has worked in a confused and ambiguous manner,” Tewari said while announcing a direct action programme from August 9. He said that with the objective of `BJP hatao – sthirta lao‘ (remove BJP to bring stability) the Youth Congress would protest the non-availability of power and water, astronomical increase in the prices of essential commodities and focus attention on the increasing crime and lawlessness especially in states ruled by the BJP and its allies.
August 9 would be the Sankalp Divas – where the Youth Congress activists would hold a day-long token fast on the occasion of Shahid divas in all district headquarters and state capitals. The Sankalp Divas would be followed by the Chounoti Divas on September 10 where effigies of the BJP government would be burnt and on October 5, rallies and demonstrations would be held all over the country to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s government.
