BOMBAY: Janata Dal president S.R.Bommai, has said the Congress would split and the country would witness fresh parliamentary polls after the coming crucial Assembly elections which, he said, would determine the course of national politics.
Prime Minister P.V.Narasimha Rao was liquidating the Congress by his actions and helping the BJP to come to power knowingly or unknowingly, he told reporters on Oct.16.
Bommai claimed his party would form the Government in Uttar Pradesh or at least emerge as the single largest party while no party would win majority in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh,
He analyzed that Congress was a “zero” in Uttar Pradesh and BJP had lost “sympathy” in all the four states formerly ruled by it because of the way it governed and in the aftermath of the Ayodhya incidents,
Bommai scoffed at Samajvadi Party leader Mulayam Singh’s claim about his sway in Uttar Pradesh and accused him of exhibiting arrogance and overconfidence.
Mulayam Singh has lost sympathy particularly of the minorities because of the way he has conducted in the past three or four months and only a small section of backward class people are with him,” the Janata Dal chief said and blamed him for failure of unity efforts.
He said viewing the way the Congress government had been moving during the last two years, there was “total misrule” and the Prime Minister was indecisive on every matter of national import. “There is a government but no governance.”
According to Bommai, there was no difference between BY Congress on fundamental is and they were equally disastrous to the country.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 22, 1993
