New Delhi: Stepping up its attack on the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday said Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has suffered “loss of confidence” in dealing with problems facing his government, and called upon its cadres to ready for a possible early general election.
In a hard hitting attack on the government at the end of its two-day national executive meeting, the BJP said there was “drift in governance” in the UPA.
“The government is in a suicidal mode, we don’t need to disturb it,” senior BJP leader LK Advani said.
“The UPA’s style of governance is full of arrogance, smugness and intolerance,” party leader Arun Jaitley told reporters.
Attacking the Prime Minister, Jaitley said Dr Manmonhan Singh always lacked authority. “There is also now lack of confidence in dealing with the situation.”
Referring to Finance Minister Pranab Mukerjee’s statement that inferences in his ministry’s note on 2G spectrum do not reflect his views, Jaitley said it was an “uneasy truce” with Chidambaram.
“Never do we remember senior ministers presenting themselves before the media and country and making it appear as a joint communique,” Jaitley said.
Such joint communiques were issued when differences were to be resolved between either soverign nations or political groups, he added.
Calling Mukherjee’s statement and Chidambaram’s subsequent acceptance of it as a “farce”, he said it had demolished concept of collective responsibility.
He said the country was not concerned with how the note was prepared but its contents which had not been disputed by anyone.
Jaitley said the BJP national executive meeting also discussed senior party leader LK Advani’s anti-corruption ‘yatra’ which begins from Oct 11 from Bihar.
He said the government might not be able to complete its term till 2014 and party leaders had been asked to remain prepared for every eventuality.
The meeting also discussed the party’s prepartions for forthcoming assembly polls in Goa, Manipur, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. (IANS)
