Varun Gandhi Lose BJP Ticket
BJP candidate from Pilibhit Varun Gandhi’s remarks could go on to help the Third Front. This is what CPI national secretary D. Raja feels.
Mr Raja also went on to indicate that the JD(U) might support the Third Front government in a post-poll scenario.
Speaking to this newspaper, Mr Raja felt that Mr Varun Gandhi’s remarks and the BJP’s “communal agenda” would force the NDA allies to join the Third Front in a post poll scenario. “How long will the JD(U) and other allies of the NDA justify their association with the BJP, which is following such a fascist and communal agenda,” Mr Raja said on Thursday.
Terming the alleged “hate speech” by Mr Gandhi as a ‘’strategy of the BJP’’ to pursue its Hindutva ideology, the CPI leader said that ‘’like the BJP-BJD split, other allies of the NDA will now find themselves indefensible if they continue to align with the BJP’’.
The Third Front parties are likely to use Mr Gandhi’s remarks to “expose” the saffron party’s communal face in the run up to the Lok Sabha polls. “The Kandhamal episode in Orissa, where minorities were attacked by Sangh Parivar outfits, must serve as an example to parties like the JD(U),” Mr Raja said.
He said that the first big blow to the saffron party came when the BJD decided to break its 11-year alliance with the BJP in the state. Similarly, the Varun Gandhi episode has further isolated the BJP from its allies within the NDA.
“Different voices have emerged within the NDA. The JD(U) has already distanced itself from Gandhi’s remarks,” he said.
Meanwhile, developments in the Congress camp have further emboldened the Left parties’ move to form a Third Front after the polls.
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