Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Cong gears up to take on NDA

Cong gears up to take on NDA

PATNA: If the NDA has decided to train its guns on the UPA-II led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during electioneering in the coming assembly elections in Bihar, the Congress, as it appears, is unlikely to take the flak lying down. The latter, in fact, has decided to take on the NDA with a vengeance.

For an indication of the same, the state Congress's Manifesto Committee held its meeting here at the party headquarters at Sadaqat Ashram on Wednesdaya and arrived at a consensus regarding the draft manifesto, besides its content and thrust.

As it is, the party would build its turf and pitch around the quantum of developmental money that the UPA-II has pumped into the state, on the one hand. On the other, it would also point to the misutilization of the funds and irregularities indulged in during the implementation phase, indicating that the money sent did not reach the target groups. That apart, the state Congress would also mention the fronts on which the Nitish Kumar government had failed.

The committee held its meeting under chairmanship of former Union minister and senior party leader L P Shahi. Other participants included former minister Baleshwar Ram, former working president of Bihar legislative council Arun Kumar, committee convener Ram Updesh Singh, MLC Jyoti and former MP Manorama Singh, said state Congress spokesman Rajesh Kumar Sinha.

According to him, they also expressed their opinions on issues that could be included to pillory the Nitish government. For the same, they discussed various programmes under which the UPA-II had given money to the state for utilization.

While the next meeting of the committee would be held on August 2, the way it is building its poll plank would certainly not be music to the ears of the NDA constituents.

For its sake, the Nitish-led NDA government has built its central thrust around "vikas" (development) achieved in the last four-and-a-half years. Then, to put the UPA-II on the mat, the NDA constituents __ JD(U) and BJP __ first asked for the special category status for Bihar and now decided to make it a poll issue.

However, the state Congress is gearing up to take on the NDA by its horns. Accordingly, state Congress chief Mehboob Ali Qaiser, after inducting into the party the former BJP candidate from Sikta assembly constituency, Prem Sagar Prasad, said the BPCC had already acquired a dynamism under the leadership of AICC president Sonia Gandhi and general secretary Rahul Gandhi.

Author:
The Times of India

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