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Cong. will retain power in M.P., Delhi: Govindacharya

Jabalpur April 18. A day after virtually calling it quits from the BJP, the party ideologue K. N. Govindacharya today praised the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh's leadership and said the Congress would be voted back to power in the State as well as in Delhi in this year's Assembly elections.

Lauding Mr. Singh's administrative abilities in Madhya Pradesh, Mr. Govindacharya said that "if everything goes well, he will again be saddled to power, may be by a slender majority."

In Delhi, the Congress Chief Minister, Sheila Dixit, had a definite edge over her rival BJP and there would be not much difficulty for her to retain power.

In Rajasthan, he said, the Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot, must try to organise the Congress in a better manner. In Chhattisgarh, the Chief Minister Ajit Jogi, had "unnecessarily created a host of enemies" whereas the BJP leader, Dilipsingh Judeo, has a "clean and honest" slate.

Mr. Govindacharya said the former Union Minister. V. C. Shukla, quitting the Congress would have little adverse effect on the ruling in Chhattisgarh. About the replacement of Jana Krishnamurthy by M. Venkaiah Naidu as the BJP chief, Mr. Govindacharya said "Naidu is more dyanamic and energetic."

Referring to the Lok Sabha elections to be held in 2004, he said it is too early to gauge the situation and comment.

About the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mayawati, filing cases against the Samajwadi Party leaders, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh, he said "blindly supporting her actions would prove harmful for the BJP in the long run in Uttar Pradesh as well as in central politics."

In New Delhi, the BJP today sought to downplay the reported decision of Mr. Govindacharya not to renew his organisational membership saying that there was no need to comment on it. "There is no need to comment on it," the party president, M. Venkaiah Naidu, told reporters here when asked about media reports in this regard. — PTI

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