NEW DELHI: The recent call of the largest opposition group in Indian parliament, right wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for a nation-wide anti-budget agitation has coming for varying comments in the editorials of some of the leading dailies here on March 17. Commenting on BJP” call given in its recent national executive meeting, the Hindustan times sees behind it the party’s intention to reawwert its position as the pre-eminent opposition party in the country.
BJPs description of the budget as a great fraud on parliament as well as people is meant to serve a strategic purpose of distancing it from the center (Delhi) where Congress (I) is the ruling party, the paper says.
“Though political compulsions have necessitated the BJP to express itself against the budget, it cannot be said with certainty that the party has concretized it stand on various fiscal issues, the editorial says, adding that the BP cannot all of a sudden denounce economic reforms as anti-people.
The BJPs denunciation of the central government’s policies on the troubled states of Punjab Assam and Jammu and Kashmir is a manifestation of its eagerness to extricate itself from the charge of being hand-in-glove with the government, the paper concludes.
“The Indian express on the other hand is not suspicious of the BJPs moves and intentions and says that by judging from its increasing concern over the economic agenda before India, BJP is evolving itself into a centrist party.
The BJPs leadership has shown a remarkable resilience by trying to concentrate on speedy economic resurgence, the paper says. However, the BIPs denouncing of the Indian government’s budget as a great fraud is a political rhetoric which every opposition party considers its special privilege, the editorial justifies. Praising the BJP, the editorial concludes that it is now keen to make its own distinctive contribution to usher in a new economic.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 27, 1992
