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BJP to go UP polls alone: Venkaiah

Source: PTI
November 21, 2006 18:46 IST
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The Bharatiya Janata Party will not forge alliances for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections and will contest the polls alone, former party chief M Venkaiah Naidu said on Tuesday.

Talking to reporters in Faizabad, Naidu said, "The BJP will go alone in the forthcoming UP assembly elections and will have no electoral alliance with any political party."

Naidu was in Faizabad to lead a march to mobilise public opinion on national security, which he alleged was threatened by incidents of terrorism in different parts of the country.

"The United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre could not evolve a strategy to contain terrorist activities and ISI seems to have increased its penetration in various areas of public life in the country," he said.

"There has been no cohesion among constituents of the UPA on major foreign and economic policies and this has affected governance," he said.

Naidu said the government had failed to control the rise in prices of essential commodities and it had raised prices of petroleum products seven times in less than three years even though global prices had gone down from 72 dollars a barrel to 50 dollars, he said.

"The government's anti-farmer policy has become a nightmare and importing 50 lakh tonnes of wheat will adversely affect farmers," he said.

He alleged the Centre's appeasement policy was aimed at gaining votes, which was the most dangerous move that would adversely affect democracy.

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