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Indore, Feb 19: Senior BJP leader and Parliamentary Party Chairman L K Advani today warned of dire and unprecedented agitation if the UPA took any action that compromised national interests and failed to take measures to check prices of essential commodities.
In his concluding remarks at the three-day National Executive and National Council conclave here, Mr Advani referring obviously about the Indo-Pak talks scheduled to be held on February 25, said the talks of granting autonomy by the committee headed by Justice Saghir Ahmad was nothing but a ‘fraud’, as no meeting had taken place. "I warn the Government that if it takes any step to dilute Indian authority in Jammu and Kashmir, the government will have to face unprecedented national repercussions," Mr Advani said.
He said Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley had said Ahmad committee had held no meetings and its conclusions can’t even be deemed as the conclusions of the committee and the BJP would mobilise national reaction on J&K compromise and the price rise.
Mr Advani recalled that the previous NDA Government had talked to Pakistan President Gen Musharraf bypassing the criticism that he was the main person behind the Kargil conflict at the Agra Summit. When he termed J&K terror as ‘struggle for independence’, the then Government asked him to wind up and go back to his country.
The UPA Government after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks had time and again declared that there would be no talks until the terror infrastructure in Pakistan was dismantled. But all on a sudden, under the pressure of the United States, the UPA had taken a U-turn.
He said the BJP had emotional bonds with Jammu and Kashmir and its leader Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, the founder president of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh had laid down his life for its merger into Indian Union when he was mere 52 years. He had died under mysterious circumstances in a J&K jail after entering the state without permit. He also had given the famous slogan "Eke Desh mien do Idahoan, do Nisan, do Proudhon Na hi Chaldea, Na hi Chaldea" (There can’t be two laws, two flags and two Presidents in one nation), he said.
Turning to prices, Mr Adan said none could imagine that the prices of pulses would touch Rs 100 a kg and sugar Rs 50. This is because of either mismanagement or direct involvement of IPA Minister in the corruption, he said.
Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj in her address said that there would be a massive rally on April 21 at Delhi where over 10 lakh people representing all sections of affected people are expected to be take part in the massive protest against the price rise. She said while the nation was unable to bear the brunt of price hike, the PM was seeing this as a sign of achievement and growth and patting himself on the back in the international fora. The BJP would expose the hollowness of the Government in the Budget Session of the Parliament, she said.
BJP President Nitin Gadkari said the party apparatus would start collecting signatures of the people affected by the unprecedented price rise. The NDA Government had kept the prices under check during its six year Atal Bihari Vajpayee regime and the food production those days was lesser than the current productions.
Former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha who moved the economic resolution at the National Council said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had heralded an inflation driven economy both as Finance Minister in the earlier P V Narasimha Rao Government and now as the PM. The growth now witnessed was a gift of NDA and the UPA Government was just reaping the fruits of the past toils.
He accused the UPA Government of using public exchequer in the name of stimulus package for victory for the UPA in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan and Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa demanded roll back of the increase in the prices of fertilisers announced by the Centre. Already, the farmers were unable to bear the burden of soaring input costs and the decision of the Centre would only create problems for the already supressed farmers, they argued.
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