The BJP has reasons to be pleased with Union Law Minister Salman Khursheed for providing fodder to its poll campaign in Uttar Pradesh.
For several weeks now, the party has been deriving maximum advantage of the controversial statements he made. Ironically, it is the Law Minister who has shaped some of the key campaign themes of the BJP.
He first triggered a controversy with a statement on the Congress intent to provide nine per cent reservation to minorities from within the 27 per cent quota for the OBCs.
Then came his remark that the government was on the verge of ordering a judicial enquiry into the 2008 Batla House encounter in New Delhi. The BJP seized it as yet another instance of the Congress ‘communalising' the campaign and demanded an explanation from the government and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on whether they concurred with the Law Minister's view.
Stepping up the attack on him in the wake of the Election Commission seeking the President's ‘immediate and decisive intervention' in the case of Mr. Khursheed for repeatedly violating the model code in U.P., the BJP on Monday demanded that the Prime Minister sack him without delay as he was still unrepentant.
“Practically, even after a week Salman Khursheed is unrepentant and is actually defiant. This is an example of vote-bank politics, communal politics, corrupt politics that denigrate all constitutional authority,” said BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar.
Keywords: Salman Khursheed issue, U.P. polls
India's democracy is still at an infant sage. A few intellectuals do
not comprise the entire public. Poverty, like the one existing in
India, will not allow poor people to analyze various factors and vote.
Hence the political parties should, first of all, ensure a peaceful
atmosphere, then go about implementing various welfare measures.
Congress is wooing minority votes and also indulges in vote bank
politics. BJP doesn't like vote bank politics but people do have
apprehension that they are against minorities. The key to win the
mandate from people in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections is to
convince people that absolute peaceful atmosphere will prevail in the
country. They have clamoured for the resignations of various ministers
which was ignored by the concerned persons. So they should refrain
from seeking the resignations but instead educate people about the
malfunctioning of the government.
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