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Opposition trying to destabilise Govt.: BJP
By Our Special Correspondent
BANGALORE
FEB. 11.
The Union Minister for Rural Development, Venkaiah Naidu, today charged the Opposition with indulging once again in "backroom'' activities to destabilise the Vajpayee Government after the current elections.
Although the Opposition is fighting among themselves in the elections, it was seriously holding consultations to make one more attempt after the elections to destabilise the Government which "is not only going to fail, but will also boomerang on it'', he said.
Mr.Naidu told reporters that the Opposition had formed an unholy alliance earlier, but quarrelled while staking the claim to form the Government. "It wants to make one more attempt now.''
The BJP leader, who expressed confidence of NDA partners getting a clear majority in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, said that some leaders who were dreaming of becoming prime minister should know that there was no vacancy for the post for two and a half years.
Referring to the byelection to the Lok Sabha from the Kanakapura constituency in Karnataka, Mr. Naidu said the BJP was fighting the election seriously as elsewhere.
He described the contest here between the former Prime Minister, H.D. Deve Gowda, who is the JD(S) candidate, and the Congress as a mock fight. Challenging them to deny it, he asked if the two parties could give the people an assurance that they were not going to join hands after the elections.
Ayodhya issue
Mr. Naidu criticised the Congress, the Left and other Opposition parties for accusing the BJP of double standards while they were themselves practising double standards on the Ayodhya issue, and sought to know their stand on the issue as the former Prime Minister and Congress president had gone on record that the party was for reconstruction of the destroyed structure.
The stand of the BJP was clear. It stood for a solution mutually acceptable to the two communities or based on court verdict. Since the BJP led a coalition, it had to abide by the "dharma'' of coalition. The Congress and the Samajwadi Party were raking up the issue in every December to heighten communal tension, he said.
Asked to comment on the deadline of March 15 set by the VHP to start temple construction, Mr. Naidu said if a mutually-acceptable solution could not be found, the law would take its course.
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