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Congress challenges BJP for a debate
By Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI,
MARCH 20.
The Congress today challenged the Bharatiya Janata Party to discuss issues of its claims of development in any field — be it of agriculture or economy — and charged that the BJP was shying away from a debate.
The party also charged that the BJP leader and Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani's statement that idealism had nothing to do with ideology only reflected the shift in his stance from being an advocate of secularism to the politics of rath yatra.
The Congress spokesperson, Kapil Sibal, said that in 1977 Mr. Advani was a signatory to the Janata Party manifesto that said the party was guided by Gandhian principles and believed in democratic, secular and social order.
It said Mr. Advani had also accepted that the Janata Party believed that all citizens of the country were equal, should be treated without any discrimination and provided security.
It is only in 1989, Mr. Sibal said, that for the first time he talked of the appeasement of minorities and in 1991 Mr. Advani said that had he not played the "Ram factor'' effectively, he would not have won from the New Delhi constituency.
"For Advani, Lord Ram was not a matter of faith but a political tool and a weapon which they have been using.
Now he says he believes in idealism without ideology,'' Mr Sibal said.
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