BJP to prepare groundfor nationwide agitation

PATNA: During the next two-and-a-half months, BJP would be busy preparing ground to launch a full-blown countrywide movement against corruption under the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre and demanding repatriation of black money stashed in tax havens abroad.
"We will complete the groundwork by August," said BJP national general secretary and co-in charge of the party's Bihar affairs Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday.He was here in connection with party work. He added, "We will put all our might to reach out to villages during the period. By August, we will be ready."
According to him, BJP is engaged in preparing propaganda literature for the purpose, which will be sent to the party's remotest village units. He said the party has also decided to organize meetings and demonstration for four days, beginning June 23, at district headquarters to focus on issues like price rise, black money and corruption, and with 'prajatantra bachao (save democracy)' call.
"We will take our campaign on the issues concerned to a 'nirnayak mor (decisive end)', and we will not tire," Pradhan said. The next phase of movement will be a sustained one from September, he added.
The BJP has chalked out the movement plan in the backdrop of elections to the state assembly in Uttar Pradesh next year. Moreover, 2014 would have parliamentary polls. Besides, the civil society led by Anna Hazare has been insisting that the Lokpal law should be a reality by August 15, failing which they would go on stir path again.
While the broad political alliances in UP have still not been forged, and major political parties have announced to go it alone, Pradhan sees a polarization of forces - Congress-led UPA on the one side, and "people of the country" at the other.
He said AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi had suddenly got into the imagination of people in the context of Bhatta-Parsaul village incidents, but the recent police crackdown on the camp of yoga guru Baba Ramdev at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi changed the dynamics of people's perceptions. "It is the job of the Centre to decide how to cope with the deteriorating health of Ramdev," Pradhan said.