NEW DELHI: The BJP responded to the CPM’s call to form a Third front by describing the Left party as one which is out of sync with the political reality. Condemning the CPM’s dubbing of the BJP as “enemy number one”, the BJP said the Left party is “out of sync with the will of the people”. The BJP took the opportunity to lash out at the Left for what it termed as the “politics of zero responsibility and accountability”.
The BJP attributed both, the effort to form a Third Front and the labelling of the BJP as enemy number one, as proofs of the Left’s complete disconnect with the political reality. The BJP said the CPM’s draft political resolution “smacked of political arrogance at its worst”, reflecting the Left party’s “political hypocrisy” and “lack of political integrity”.
On the viability of a Third Front, the BJP maintained that over the last six decades Indian politics has become increasingly bipolar — “a reality the CPM and the Left Front parties have failed to either note or appreciate”.
In this context, the BJP and Congress have emerged as the two divergent poles of Indian politics.
“The chimera of the so-called Third Front is solely to frustrate the growth of the BJP/NDA and prevent it from coming to power. The patent objective of this front is offer the last, belated attempt to stop the BJP. This ill-conceived political game plan is destined to fail,” BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
Reacting to the idea of dubbing political opponents as “enemy number one”, the BJP said such concepts only reflected the CPM’s “Stalinist mindset”, which is “patently anti-democratic, irrelevant and undesirable” in the interests of healthy democratic traditions. The party sought to remind the Left and CPM general secretary Mr Prakash Karat that the BJP has formed governments in nine states — it is on its own in six states and is member of coalition governments in three.
“In each of the states the BJP formed the government because it was elected by the people through the electoral process which is the hallmark of democracy. The Left, on the other hand, has been pushed to the margins, and they have a presence in only three states,” Mr Prasad said.
The party said the Left has a history of indulging in “verbal assault against the nationalist and democratic forces”. The BJP said the Left has used similar “autocratic” and “Stalinist” expressions against the Congress party and Jai Prakash, who was described as a “rank fascist”. “For 45 years, the Left Front leadership did not spare even the legendary Subhash Chandra Bose of their verbal assaults. But the inbuilt democratic genes of India’s masses always conclusively rejected such despicable and anti-democratic abuses during elections,” Mr Prasad said.
Referring to the duplicity of the CPM, the BJP spokesperson said, “the lust to share the trappings of power without due responsibility or accountability exposes the rank duplicity of the Left Front’s mindset and their true commitment towards the country. After enjoying power without responsibility for four years, they are seeking to disown the UPA and are talking about third front now as election nears. It is political hypocrisy at its worst.”
The BJP has dared the CPM to withdraw support to the UPA if it feels that the government is not working in the interests of the people. “Disassociate yourself from the UPA, but you don’t have the courage,” Mr Prasad added.
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