GANDHI NAGAR (GUJARAT): The Right-wing opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hit out at the Ruling Congress (I) Party for its attempt “to scuttle democracy” by trying to bring a legislation banning some of the political parties from contesting elections.
BJP president Murli Manohar Joshi, speaking in the national council meeting of the party here, charged the premier P.V. Narasimha Rao, with trying to raise in a “devious manner” the issue of secular and non-secular parties at the recently concluded session of the All India Congress committee in Tirupati. Such a thinking by the prime minister would Lead to authoritarianism and favism, he said.
Article extracted from this publication >> May 15, 1992
