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Kailash Joshi accuses Congress of dividing nation

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BHOPAL: The president of the Madhya Pradesh unit of Bharatiya Janata Party, Kailash Joshi, on Sunday defended the decision of his party and the National Democratic Alliance partners to boycott the Parliament proceedings and said that the boycott would continue till the end of the current session.

Addressing a press conference at the State BJP headquarters here, he said that never before in a democracy, the Opposition has been treated with such contempt as was being done under the present Congress-led United Progressive Alliance regime.

Lashing out at the Congress Party, the State BJP chief said that the every thing was being done to divide the country. This happens whenever the Congress party forms a Government at the Centre with the help of the Left parties, he added.

Launching a frontal attack on the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, Mr. Joshi said that he appears to be ``helpless'' as he was being forced to do every thing at the behest of some one from outside the Government. When his attention was drawn to the fact that even the BJP president, L.K. Advani, had made a similar assertion while addressing a tribals' convention at Mandla on Saturday, Mr. Joshi said: "Every one knows who is holding the reigns at the Centre''. Mr. Joshi said that BJP would be launching a nation-wide campaign to inform the public why they had been compelled to boycott the Parliament proceedings.

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