He urged the people to understand the difficulties faced by the coalition government before assessing its performance and cooperate with it in taking forward its developmental programmes. The BJP president was addressing a public meeting organised in the city in connection with the completion of one year in power of the Atal Behari Vajpayee government.

Launching a scathing attack on the Congress for attempting to pull down the coalition government, Thakre recalled how in its pursuit ofpower, it had toppled governments led by Charan Singh, Chandrasekhar, Deve Gowda and I K Gujral earlier. He minced no words in criticising the party for stooping down to any level to stay in power. However, the people had realised that this Dhokebaaz Congress would never do any good.