Press Trust of India Posted online: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at 0942 hours IST Updated: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at 1205 hours IST
Kolkata, June 28: The Left parties should withdraw support if they were unhappy with the UPA, but the Marxists would not do so as it was a case of 'match-fixing' between them, BJP General Secretary Shahnawaz Hussain said today.
"This is a case of match-fixing like in WWE free style wrestling. There is a tacit understanding between the UPA and the Leftists. The understanding is that the UPA will continue to do as it pleases, while the Marxists will keep on shouting," Hussain said.
"If the Leftists are unhappy with the UPA over implementation of the common minimum programme and the recent increase in the prices of petrol and diesel, let them withdraw support.".
But the Leftist would not do, he said, "They want to continue with their drama to hoodwink the people till next year's Assembly elections in West Bengal," he said.
About the elections in Bihar, he claimed that the NDA would get an absolute majority there under the leadership of Nitish Kumar and defeat the RJD-Congress combine.
Claiming that all legislators who had earlier supported LJP Chief Ram Vilas Paswan had now joined the NDA, he blamed him for his 'peculiar' stand for 'clamouring for a Muslim chief minister of Bihar.''
Alleging that the situation in West Bengal and Bihar were almost similar to that under emergency in 1975, he said that the BJP-Trinamool Congress was the only alternative to the Left Front and this would be proved in next year's Assembly elections.
Khurana lambasts Left
Launching a scathing attack on Left parties over their 'pretention' on petro price hike, senior BJP leader M L Khurana today accused them of playing a double game.
''Their (Left parties) role in UPA meeting is different from what they are speaking in public.... Their protests against price rice in petrol and diesel are fake,'' Khurana told a press conference here.
Particularly the CPI, the former Delhi chief minister alleged, had been indulging in a double game -- ''be it the emergency or petro price hike''.
Terming as 'drama' the Left resentment over price hike, Khurana claimed the Communists would not harm the government till the Assembly elections scheduled in Kerala and West Bengal next year.
The Manmohan Singh regime in its 14-month rule has hiked prices of petroleum products four times, totalling an amount of Rs. 9.50 on petrol and Rs. 7 on diesel, he said.
In contrast, the prices were increased only four times by the NDA regime during its rule. It had also rolled back the price twice as the NDA had followed the fluctuating oil prices in the international market, he said.
Kolkata, June 28: The Left parties should withdraw support if they were unhappy with the UPA, but the Marxists would not do so as it was a case of 'match-fixing' between them, BJP General Secretary Shahnawaz Hussain said today.
