LUCKNOW, June 27: The BJP today said the top leadership of the Congress was responsible for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots following the assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi.
‘Those who blame Narendra Modi for Gujarat riots must not forget that the 1984 riots were triggered by the top leadership of the Congress,’ BJP national president Rajnath Singh told reporters here.
Without naming the then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, he said the statement that the earth shakes when a big tree is felled provoked the anti-Sikh riots in the country causing massive human losses. Now the same party alleges that the 2002 Gujarat riots were ignited by the Chief Minister Modi which was absolutely incorrect, he added.
Mr Singh said the Gujarat riots were condemnable but before that as many as 3,900 riots had taken place in the country.
The BJP national president said that the Congress was trying to divert the nation’s attention from political agenda and was unnecessarily raking up the debate on communalism and secularism.
Mr Singh said the appeasement policies of the Congress had vitiated the communal harmony of the country. The post-independence Congress had always divided society because of which Mahatma Gandhi wanted to disband the party after independence.
He said the country was facing crisis on all the fronts specially the economic where the Indian rupee was devalued to an all time low of Rs 60 viz-a-viz US dollor denting the exports to a great extent.
The senior BJP leader said that the Gross Domestic Product(GDP) was pegged at just four per cent while it had zoomed to 8.4 per cent during the regime of NDA prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. ‘Despite our PM being considered as an economic expert, the domestic and foreign investments are plummeting halting the growth of GDP,’ he pointed out.
He claimed that the foreign investors had withdrawn about 4.2 billion dollors while the domestic investment was being diverted to other countries. ‘Such is the economy, that the UPA government at the Centre has managed to create just 27 lakh jobs during last several years as compared to 6.69 crore during the NDA regime,’he added.
The BJP president said not only on the economic front but the Manmohan Singh government had failed on foreign policy as well. ‘Terrorist are attacking Army, Naxalites attacking their own people and the US is recognising Taliban and the persent government is being a mute spectator,’ he charged.
The UPA government, which claims itself to be the strategic friend of the US, should pressurise the latter to withdraw recognition to Doha office of Taliban, Mr Singh urged.
In an appeal to bring unity among those who favoured the cause of anti-Congress polity in the country, he called upon the followers of Jai Prakash Narayana and Ram Manohar Lohiya to come together. ‘Let us be clear that the country cannot progress unless Congress is dethroned,’ he said.
The former UP chief minister said that the Congress had broken all barriers of corruption and now the Prime Minister Office(PMO) is under the shadow in the ‘coalgate’, scam in the coal ministry.
He also came down on the Congress for politicising the Uttarakhand calamity. ‘It is shameful that the relief material was dispatched by flagging off at the political platform,’ he alleged.
Referring to the woes of people of Uttar Pradesh,the BJP leader said the governance in the state could be gauged by the fact that the Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav was criticising his own government. (UNI)
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