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By Our Special Correspondent
CHENNAI, FEB. 1. The Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded the immediate withdrawal of the name of the former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, from the tsunami relief package announced by the Centre. It also demanded that the scheme be implemented through the State Governments. "This is totally unacceptable, against the spirit of the Constitution and against the spirit of the federal set-up," said M. Venkaiah Naidu, former BJP president and MP. The naming could not be justified both morally and politically, he told the press here. He said this was a "crude attempt" by the Congress to make political capital out of a colossal tragedy. "The Congress party seems less interested in reaching the benefit to the tsunami-affected people and more interested in gaining partisan political benefit," he alleged. Mr. Naidu wondered why the Left parties had not objected to the Centre's decision. The BJP wanted the package to be treated as a Centrally-sponsored scheme but implementation should be entrusted to the States. Implementation through banks was not practical and this only showed that the Congress had not learnt its lessons from the past. The Prime Minister should intervene to introduce correctives.
Objection to advertisements
Referring to the advertisements released in newspapers today ahead of the foundation stone laying function for flyovers here, he said the photographs of the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi and the DMK president, M. Karunanidhi, were displayed prominently. He had no objection to the leaders' photographs featuring in such advertisements if the cost was borne by the party. But here a Government department had spent the taxpayers' money, he said.
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