Bjp Will Sweep To Power, Says Advani
BJP president L K Advani yesterday ridiculed predictions of yet another hung Parliament and asserted that his party, along with its allies, would get an overwhelming majority to provide a stable, strong and honest government at the Centre.
Launching a broadside against the Rashtriya Janata Dal president Laloo Prasad Yadav for aligning with the Congress, Advani said: Yadav hopes to be the palanquin-bearer of the Congress but will finally end up being its pall-bearer. In response to RJD allegations that the BJP and the Ranvir Sena were hand-in-glove and responsible for the massacre of 61 people at Lakshmanpur Bathe in the state, Advani said: The allegations that the BJP has any links with the banned Sena are thoroughly baseless and politically-motivated.
He said the BJP believed in non-violence and peace and was completely against the floating of private armies in a democratic set-up. Addressing a press conference here, Advani said: Let the poll results be out, the prediction of yet another hung Parliament will be hung like the banners of falsified fortune-tellers fluttering ingloriously below the victorious flag of the BJP.
The pro-BJP atmosphere is discernible across the country be it Tamil Nadu, Manipur, Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya, Karnataka or Bihar, the states I have toured during the past three weeks, he claimed.
Advani claimed the triumphant march of the BJP and its allies was in sharp contrast to the utter disunity and confusion in the ranks of adversaries. While the Congress was fighting the elections for the sake of relevance, the Janata Dal would be completely finished at the hustings, he said.
More so, two parallel centres of power have emerged in the Congress with one of them being extra-constitutional, making the other extra-concerned, he said.
It is ironical that Laloo Yadav who owes his very political career to the anti-Congress movement launched by the late Jaiprakash Narayan, is today trying to revive the electoral fortunes of a dying Congress, Advani said.
Laloo Yadav hopes to be the palanquin-bearer of the Congress party but will finally end up being its pall-bearer, he added.
Describing Yadav and his secular front, the Jan Morcha, as the worst caricature of the coming elections, the BJP leader told a press conference that the electorate in Bihar would put an end to the RJD presidents game of unscrupulous politics.