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Friday, May 21, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Rosaiah hits out at BJP

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, MAY 20. The APCC chief spokesperson, K. Rosaiah, has accused the BJP and other Hindutva forces of having scant regard for democratic conventions, Hindu traditions and mass

opinion.

Talking to presspersons here on Thursday, he said that the stand taken by BJP leaders was `uncivilised.' Instead of accepting defeat in the elections with grace, the BJP leadership had used its women leaders -- Sushma Swaraj and Uma Bharati -- to launch a tirade against the AICC president, Sonia Gandhi.

Mr. Rosaiah questioned their moral stand - one who threatened to don widowhood while her husband is alive and the other who questioned the people's mandate - of the two and asked whether their threats were in consonance with the Indian customs and traditions or were compatible with democratic traditions.

Ms. Sonia Gandhi had become the tallest leader today by spurning the Prime Ministership which no BJP leader was perhaps capable of doing it, he said welcoming the choice of Manmohan Singh for the top slot. He had a good word for the TDP president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, "who had the decency to keep out of the controversy treating the issue as an internal matter of the Congress."

The BJP did not even show such a tendency, he said.

He dismissed the criticism levelled against the Delhi trips of the Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, as `small talk' and said the country was passing through a crucial phase and the Chief Minister could not possibly keep away from the developments.

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