NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata party is currently on the horns of dilemma to vote against the P.V. Narasimha Rao government during the forthcoming budget session or not. The conflicting noises being made by the sangh parivar against the economic confused many a party cadre.
On the one hand senior BJP leaders are on record singing hosannas to the Rao government and predicting that it would last its full term. One the other the RSS has announced a massive swadeshi andolan to be started around the same time the budget session begins. The objective to protest against the entry of multinationals into the county and to promote indigenous trade and industry.
The BJP leaders are at great pains to explain their support for some of the economic policies announced by the government in July last and claim that they had never backed the policies wholesale. The senior party leader Mr. LK Advani has claimed that as the principal opposition party the IP could never back the Rao government has stuck.
How the party think-tank sons out the dilemma before their constituent’s remains to be seen but as one member of the brain trust said” will be too far-fetched to think in terms of voting out the government. When it comes to the crunch we will try our best ensure that the government does not fall. But the configuration and attitudes of opposition parties is also to the benefit of the ruling panty”.
For one it is felt that strident opposition to the entry of multi nationals would antagonize the middle-class in the country.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 21, 1992
