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BJP draws up strategy ahead of Assembly polls

BHOPAL: The Executive Committee of the Madhya Pradesh unit of Bharatiya Janata Party ended its two-day session here on Wednesday after finalising its strategy to gear up for the coming Assembly elections. The Executive launched a frontal attack on the United Progressive Alliance Government at the Centre on vital issues like terrorism, rising prices, drought relief and “deliberate” scaling down of the State’s quota of foodgrains, electricity and coal for power generation.

Briefing media persons at the end of the session, State BJP president Narendra Singh Tomar said the Executive had decided to launch a signature campaign to draw attention to various demands that were not being fulfilled by the Centre. This would be followed by a “Nyaya Yatra” (march for justice) in New Delhi, and if the Centre continued to remain indifferent, the BJP would blow the bugle for a “Nyaya Yudh” (battle for justice), that is the Assembly elections in November this year.

The Executive passed two resolutions on Wednesday. One of them raised the issue of terrorism while the other advocated the need to uphold women’s dignity by bringing into focus an incident in which the Bhopal district Women’s Congress president was reportedly manhandled by her own party workers here on Tuesday.

Accusing the Centre of adopting a soft posture towards terrorists, the resolution on terrorism stated that it was due to this reason that there had been a series of terrorist attacks in Mumbai, Malegaon, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Lucknow, Varanasi, Ayodhya, Faizabad and Gorakhpur. Jaipur became the latest target of terrorists on Tuesday.

Offering condolences to the victims of Jaipur blasts, the BJP charged that the terrorists were able to strike their targets at will because of the UPA Government’s appeasement policy aimed at building up a minority vote bank. When the whole country was facing the acute problem of terrorism, the Centre was neither enacting a strong law nor allowing other States to enact their own laws to face the crisis, it said.

The party asked the Centre to revive the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) and sought its consent for the Bill against terrorism passed earlier by the Madhya Pradesh Assembly.

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