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BJP for continuance of talks with naxalites

By Our Staff Reporter

VISAKHAPATNAM, FEB. 15. The Bharatiya Janata Party favours continuance of talks with the CPI (Maoists) even while accusing the State Government of lacking clarity and not carrying the Opposition along on such a crucial issue.

Thus affirming support to the dialogue process, the BJP national secretary, Bandaru Dattatreya, parried questions at a press conference here on Tuesday on what his party's stand was on naxalites carrying arms or what the Government should do to continue the process.

``It is for the Government to tackle the issue,'' he maintained, adding "We did not know what had transpired in the talks between the naxalites and the Government in the first round.''

Asked whether he wanted the Government to take the Opposition into confidence, he shot back: "Let alone taking into confidence, the Opposition is not getting even the minimum respect in the Rajasekhara Reddy regime.''

The BJP leader, however, did not think that the problem became more complex after the first round of talks and the Maoists targeting village and mandal-level functionaries. "It has always been a complex problem and even when the attack on the former Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, was done, the BJP had favoured talks to bring about a solution to the vexatious issue,'' he said.

The former Union Minister felt that the naxalite tangle was a national issue concerning 13 States. There was no point in holding discussions for a short-term political gain in the State, he said and recalled the former Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani's statement that talks at the State-level would not yield results.

Civic polls

Mr. Dattatreya said that his party would stage an agitation if the Government did not hold municipal elections on time and postponed it to September.

The former Union Minister, U. Krishnam Raju, the party's national secretary, K. Haribabu, and the city unit president, Bandaru Rangamohana Rao, were present.

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