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Words and deeds

Sir, — After the BJP lost the elections in the recent Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the former Chief Minister, Rajnath Singh, declared that the party would sit in the Opposition. He vowed that the party would never enter into an alliance with Mayawati's BSP. But the same person, barely a month later said that not withstanding the ideological differences, the BJP would help the BSP form a government. And that the decision was in the people's interest.

If the party is so committed, why doesn't it crack down on the rioters in Gujarat? Why are the BJP ranks so callous to the sufferings of the riot victims and the minorities in Gujarat? Why don't they explicitly show their social commitment by dealing strictly with their party men who perpetrated violence and carnage in the State? It is time the Rajnaths and the Modis realised that those who say one thing and do another are doomed.

Manoj Joseph,

Vijayawada, AP

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