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`BJP used terror tactics during civic polls'

By Our Staff Correspondent

BHOPAL, NOV. 27. While the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party today patted itself on the back for its victory in the just-concluded Madhya Pradesh civic polls, the State unit of the Congress alleged that it had resorted to terror tactics.

The Chief Minister, Babulal Gaur, said here today that the BJP victory was his Government's biggest achievement so far. Addressing a press conference jointly with the State BJP president, Kailash Joshi, at the party headquarters this afternoon, he emphasised that there was total coordination between the State Government and the ruling party.Mr. Joshi said the people had supported the party's development-oriented agenda. He said the BJP had fought the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections on the development agenda, as also the civic elections.

The Congress, he said, had tried to draw the people's attention to the issue of roads, electricity and water blaming the BJP for the slow progress on these fronts.

The people knew that the State BJP Government had very little scope to perform within a short time span because of the model code of conduct that had been imposed due to the parliamentary elections and, more recently, the civic polls.

Rebels blamed

He said the BJP had lost the Mayor's election in Bhopal and Dewas due to rebel candidates in the fray.

Mr. Joshi told newspersons that a large number of people from Madhya Pradesh would be heading for Delhi to join the BJP demonstration against rising prices on December 1.

Addressing a press conference, the State Congress president, Subhash Yadav, accused the BJP of `rigging' the elections by resorting to large-scale violence.

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