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Bhopal:
The rightist Bharatiya Janata Party, (BJP), has established a
"record in immorality" and crossed the Rubicon line by deciding to
join hands with Shibu Soren-led Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, (JMM), to
form ministry in Jharkhand state.
The above is the considered opinion of
Rashtriya Swabhiman Andolan National convenor K N Govindacharya, the
pracharak-turned-politician who led the BJP into power in the 1999
Lok Sabha elections. He put forth his views candidly while
addressing media persons here on Tuesday.
Govindacharya reasoned that the
character and conduct of JMM is radically different from the BJP. It
will be very difficult for BJP to gel with it until and unless it
cares two hoots for propriety and compromises its ideology for the
sake of power.
He lamented this time round the
Opposition BJP, always claiming to be a party with a difference, on
the line of treasury benches has reached the pinnacle of immorality
and democracy is in danger. He said in the present scenario there
seems to be no tuning between BJP leaders and its workers.
He questioned that except coming to
power and remain there what was the necessity for BJP to extend
support to JMM and strike an unprincipled deal. By crossing the
limits of immorality and compromising party policies to come to
power what party and national interest will be served, he wondered.
Similarly, the BJP is wrong in
suggesting a ministerial post for Renukacharya in the Karnataka
Cabinet. In both cases, the party's ideology had been compromised,
he said.
It may be pointed here that the Leader
of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Mrs. Sushma Swaraj while addressing a
Press conference here on Monday had defended the BJP's decision to
support the JMM in its bid to form a government in that state.
While replying to a query on JMM
President Shibu Soren -- who was acquitted in a murder case by High
Court -- she said since the BJP decided to support the JMM in
government formation, it impliedly meant that Soren was innocent.
There was ''no option left'' with the party other than forming an
alliance.
Mrs. Swaraj had stated that the JMM
episode was a compulsion brought on by the country's coalition
politics, she added that the current political scenario had been
converted into ''bipolar coalition politics'' thus compelling the
BJP not to back out from the Jharkhand arrangement.
Govindacharya philosophically
remarked: "only time will tell", when a questioner wanted to know
whether senior party leaders Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L. K. Advani
would continue to have remote control of the party in their hands
despite appointing Nitin Gadkari as the party Chief and Mrs. Sushma
Swaraj as the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.
About joining the BJP, Govindacharya
said that he has no plans to join the BJP nor any offer, then no
question of condition being put.
Setting at rest the rumours about his
entry into BJP, he said: "I have been busy compiling literary work
after my sabbatical got over. There was unnecessary rumours
circulating around regarding my probable return to the BJP."
Meanwhile, it may be recalled here
that in an interview last month on the question of returning to BJP
fold he had said: "There are too many conflicts and contradictions.
No one can repair it. From Shahnawaz to Varun Gandhi, it’s a
180-degree-wide spectrum. You have Murli Manohar Joshi and Murlidar
Rao on the one end on economic policies and Advani on the other. You
have Modi welcoming SEZs and malls to wreck the party. He cares two
hoots about the Sangh Parivar. You also have Shivraj Singh Chouhan
(Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister), who can’t live without the Sangh
Parivar. All relationships are need-based.
In the same interview he had said on
record that the Congress and the BJP are both pro-foreign and
pro-rich. They should merge. They are not allowing space to pro-poor
voices. If you do this, you are leading people to anarchist forces.
While commenting on the Justice (Retd.)
Sagheer Ahmad Committee report's recommendations on Centre-State
relationship, Govindacharya has said: "It would be suicidal for the
Centre to implement it in to-to whatever the committee had suggested
while crossing its limits. The committee's recommendations in
relation to Jammu would only encourage separatism.''
He said the Rashtriya Swabhiman
Andolan had been in contact with many institutions and people to
prepare a 'National Vision Paper' whose draft would be unveiled on
January 15 in New Delhi.
"After carrying out the necessary
correction and incorporating the suggestions, the 'National Vision
Paper' would be made public during March next year", Govindacharya
said.
(pervezbari@eth.net)
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