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BJP Govt. in a crisis: Rajagopal

By Our Staff Reporter

THRISSUR MARCH 30. The Union Minister of State for Railways, O. Rajagopal, said today that the BJP-led Government at the Centre was in a crisis as it was not able to push through the programmes close to its heart.

Inaugurating the BJP district leadership camp here, Mr. Rajagopal said that at present, the BJP was not governing the country. "The party was not able to implement the programmes close to its heart like the implementation of Article 370, the Uniform Civil Code and the construction of the Ram temple. The Government is unable to implement the views of the BJP on certain issues. Our followers and sympathizers are unhappy over this, and the dissatisfaction is reflected in the elections. Their enthusiasm for campaign seems to have been dampened, he said.

He said that the party workers and sympathizers in the State were able to understand the compulsions of coalition politics, unlike those in other States.

Mr. Rajagopal said that the Congress was under the influence of Marxists at the national level. "When the Government convened a meeting of Opposition party leaders, including Sonia Gandhi, she did not attend as she was participating in a meeting convened by the senior CPI(M) MP, Somnath Chatterjee,'' Mr. Rajagopal said.

"The Congress leaders including Ms. Sonia Gandhi are of the attitude that the BJP leaders have usurped the seats of power in the Government which were due to the Congress as a birth right.''

According to Mr. Rajagopal, the existing laws including the Indian Penal Code (IPC), do not include the definition of terrorism.

He observed that there were harsher laws than POTO in the Congress-ruled States under different names.

"The Congress concedes the necessity of laws like the POTO covertly. But because of its blind opposition to the Government, all policies and legislations brought out by the Government are opposed by the Congress.''

The BJP district president, Sreeshan Adiyatt, presided. The BJP State vice- president, Purushothaman Master, the State president of the Mahila Morcha, Rema Raghunandhanan, the district secretary, Ravikumar Uppath and the State secretary, P. S. Sreeraman, spoke on the occasion.

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