10-10-2007, 04:26 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>BJP gets into poll mode </b>
Pioneer.com
Kumar Uttam | New Delhi
'Ulta Pulta Alliance (UPA) cannot run coalition Govt'
As the UPA Government at the Centre appears to be on its last legs, the BJP has started preparing for mid-term polls.
Central envoys of the party have been rushed to States to identify potential seats and candidates, who could be fielded in the imminent snap polls.
BJP president Rajnath Singh told The Pioneer that after a fortnight-long drive that would come to an end on October 15, the central envoys would brief party high-command about the "political scenario" and "ground realities" in different parts of the country.
<b>"They will also brief about the seats that the BJP could fight on and the potential candidate who could be fielded from these constituencies," Rajnath said. At the moment, the BJP is looking to identify at least 350 seats that it plans to contest.</b>
Sources said that presidents of the State units of the BJP, in-charges for election and in-charge of party affairs in different States were going to have a meeting in New Delhi with BJP president Rajnath Singh and Leader of the Opposition LK Advani anytime after Diwali. "The meeting will discuss different issues related to the possible mid-term poll," a senior BJP leader said.
Presently, the BJP is concentrating on three core issues relating to selection of seats and subsequently the candidates, identification of core election issues and potential alliance with whom the party could have a pre-poll or a post-poll alliance.
<b>"Price rise, growing terrorism, rampant corruption, threat to Ram Setu and religion-based appeasement are going to be the core issue. The confusion that the Left and the Congress have created with their flip-flop on the controversial India-US nuclear deal will also be an important issue,"</b> a senior BJP office bearer said.
The most crucial issue confronting the BJP at the moment is to find out new allies for the NDA. At a time when NDA partner All India Trinamool Congress has hinted at walking out of the alliance and BJP's pact with the JD(S) in Bangalore has fallen flat, the party is desperate to take new parties on board.
<b>BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who is also the in-charge of central election management and monitoring cell, believes a few parties that are hesitant in joining the NDA before the elections will surely join hands after the polls.</b>
<b>Meanwhile, the BJP on Tuesday said the nation was "tired" and indeed "fatigued" by the farce, which went in the name of the UPA.</b> Party spokesman Ravishankar Prasad said it was now finally evident that an alliance of mutually hostile and antagonistic elements like the Congress and the Left based solely upon common hatred against the BJP was inherently unstable.
Describing the UPA as an "Ulta Pulta Alliance", the main Opposition party also sought to puncture the Congress' stability plank and said it was not in the ruling party's DNA to run a coalition Government. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Pioneer.com
Kumar Uttam | New Delhi
'Ulta Pulta Alliance (UPA) cannot run coalition Govt'
As the UPA Government at the Centre appears to be on its last legs, the BJP has started preparing for mid-term polls.
Central envoys of the party have been rushed to States to identify potential seats and candidates, who could be fielded in the imminent snap polls.
BJP president Rajnath Singh told The Pioneer that after a fortnight-long drive that would come to an end on October 15, the central envoys would brief party high-command about the "political scenario" and "ground realities" in different parts of the country.
<b>"They will also brief about the seats that the BJP could fight on and the potential candidate who could be fielded from these constituencies," Rajnath said. At the moment, the BJP is looking to identify at least 350 seats that it plans to contest.</b>
Sources said that presidents of the State units of the BJP, in-charges for election and in-charge of party affairs in different States were going to have a meeting in New Delhi with BJP president Rajnath Singh and Leader of the Opposition LK Advani anytime after Diwali. "The meeting will discuss different issues related to the possible mid-term poll," a senior BJP leader said.
Presently, the BJP is concentrating on three core issues relating to selection of seats and subsequently the candidates, identification of core election issues and potential alliance with whom the party could have a pre-poll or a post-poll alliance.
<b>"Price rise, growing terrorism, rampant corruption, threat to Ram Setu and religion-based appeasement are going to be the core issue. The confusion that the Left and the Congress have created with their flip-flop on the controversial India-US nuclear deal will also be an important issue,"</b> a senior BJP office bearer said.
The most crucial issue confronting the BJP at the moment is to find out new allies for the NDA. At a time when NDA partner All India Trinamool Congress has hinted at walking out of the alliance and BJP's pact with the JD(S) in Bangalore has fallen flat, the party is desperate to take new parties on board.
<b>BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who is also the in-charge of central election management and monitoring cell, believes a few parties that are hesitant in joining the NDA before the elections will surely join hands after the polls.</b>
<b>Meanwhile, the BJP on Tuesday said the nation was "tired" and indeed "fatigued" by the farce, which went in the name of the UPA.</b> Party spokesman Ravishankar Prasad said it was now finally evident that an alliance of mutually hostile and antagonistic elements like the Congress and the Left based solely upon common hatred against the BJP was inherently unstable.
Describing the UPA as an "Ulta Pulta Alliance", the main Opposition party also sought to puncture the Congress' stability plank and said it was not in the ruling party's DNA to run a coalition Government. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->