Andhra Pradesh

BJP asks electorate to support Advani for Prime Ministership

VIZIANAGARAM: Bharatiya Janata Party leaders have appealed to voters to support their party in the forthcoming elections to Parliament and pave way for L.K. Advani to become Prime Minister. K. Haribabu, the party’s national committee member, said that the ongoing “sankalp yatras” were aimed at creating awareness among people about the present day vote bank politics and projecting Mr. Advani as the prime ministerial candidate besides highlighting the lopsided policies of the UPA government that caused crisis in farm sector, price rise and terrorism.

Taking a serious view of the parties that are planning to form a third front calling BJP as a “communal party”, he said the parties that had now been opposing the BJP had once worked with its support. “Don’t they know then that the BJP is a communal party?” Dr. Haribabu asked at a press conference here on Tuesday.

On Telengana, he said that the bifurcation of the State was on BJP’s agenda and expressed concern over the injustice being meted out to Andhra region by diverting its allocated funds to Telengana. As a result work on majority of irrigation projects was going on at a slow pace, he said. The BJP leader demanded that the Reliance Industries be allowed to transport gas and oil from K-G Basin only after meeting the domestic requirement. With regard to alliances with other parties, he said that it would be decided just before the elections. To a question, he said that the BJP was against attacks on religious places and added, at the same time, that it would stoutly oppose forceful conversions.

The ‘sankalp yatra’ of the party reached the fort town from Srikakulam late on Monday night and it would reach Tada in Nellore district on October 6 after traversing through the nine coastal districts. State presidents of Dalit Morcha and Girijan Morcha P. Raja Rao and K. Bojjayya respectively, district president K.V.N.R. Prasad, and others were present.

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