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BJP flays Cong. bid to ally with secular parties

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI JAN. 12. The Bharatiya Janata Party today hit out at the Congress describing its rule in several States as unsatisfactory and incompetent. Realising that it would not be possible for the party to come to power at the Centre on its own, it had started talking about alliances with secular parties again, the BJP alleged.

The party spokesperson, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, found fault with several Congress Chief Ministers. In Madhya Pradesh, the Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh, was looking for an election issue as there was nothing that his 10-year rule could boast of; in Rajasthan the Congress defeat in all the three recent byelections had shown that the Government had failed; in Chhattisgarh, the Chief Minister, Ajit Jogi, was creating a controversy a day instead of focussing on development, in Maharashtra the law and order situation was bad; and in Bihar where the Congress was supporting the Rashtriya Janata Dal Government the RJD chief, Laloo Prasad Yadav, was busy entertaining the country at the expense of the people of the State, Mr. Naqvi said. He had something nasty to say about the Delhi Government, which he described as the victim of "metro mania" and the PDP-Congress coalition in Srinagar, which he held responsible for the continuing terrorist attacks.

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