Political Resolutions • 1 National Executive Mumbai 22-24 June, 2004 Political Motion The election for the fourteenth Lok Sabha will always be remembered mainly for the main issues in the history of Indian democracy. Firstly, this is the most fractured and uncertain mandate and the first government of the Congress led alliance has assumed the office, which is symbolizing the victory of anti-development forces of our political system and it has created an apprehension for the country in returning to unstable, uncertain and negative direction. The Bharatiya Janta Party has accepted the mandate with all humility. The BJP and the NDA have to play the role of a constructive and responsible opposition. Our party and the alliance faced unexpected loss which no one, even those who are in government today, had ever thought of. All the pre- election surveys, exit polls and well-known Indian political analysts had forecast that the NDA in the able leadership of Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee would get another mandate. But the public took another decision. The National Executive thanks the people to make the BJP the second largest party in Parliament. We are thankful especially to the people of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Orissa, Uttranchal, Arunachal and Punjab who have elected large number of candidates of the party. We express our thanks to the people of Orissa for re-electing the BJP- BJD alliance. We are also thankful to the people of Karnataka who Untitled-2 1 11/8/2016 1:11:05 PM 2 • Party Document Vol-5 have made the BJP the biggest political party in Vidhan Sabha for the first time. The National Executive appreciates Shri Atalji for leading the country for six years as Prime Minister with farsightedness. The BJP considers this six-year rule a glorious mile-stone for the future of the party. Shri Atalji has shown that a Non-Congress Alliance can give a stable government and can govern the country successfully. It will be remembered as a significant contribution in providing maturity to the Indian democracy in history. The Atal government has left glorious legacy of achievements in all spheres of national activities such as security, economic progress, infrastructure development, social development, information technology, political reform, governance and international relations. India today appears stronger, more prosperous and full of confidence than before. The National Executive expresses its gratitude to Shri Atalji in whose leadership we contested elections and who inspired and guided at every level. He and Advaniji both were in the fore front in bearing responsibilities for lakhs of our workers during the elections and thus they had set an example. The BJP takes the set-back in election very seriously. It has become clear that our pre-election calculation and expectation were far away from the ground realities. We failed to gauge the negative trend in various states as a result of which we could not make an effort to improve our condition well in time. Likewise we couldn’t convert good gestures and support prevailing in our favour into votes in some of the states. The party has constituted a committee to make all round review of our performance in the elections and the committee has been asked to give suggestions for the future action plan also. In this review participation of the party workers, office bearers and well-wishers will be ensured at all possible levels. Our thousands of devoted and laborious workers will get an opportunity to introspect, express their views and to work for the party through the reviewing of the election to be undertaken. The National Executive considers the Congress led government which has support of the leftist and the other parties as a retrogressive incident of the history of our republic. It is quite natural in parliamentary democracy that an alliance pre or post the election having requisite majority may form the government. Untitled-2 2 11/8/2016 1:11:05 PM Political Resolutions • 3 Yet the way Congress is interpreting the mandate arbitrarily is not justified. The foundation of this new government is being erected on the meaning that has been deliberately distorted. The claim of the Congress that the people have given mandate to the Congress especially under the leadership of Shrimati Sonia Gandhi is entirely baseless. The exact game number punctures this claim. As a matter of fact the Congress was completely washed away in many Congress ruled states or it has lost there. The claim made by the United Progressive Alliance in the common minimum programme and the President’s address that this is the mandate in favour of the secular forces, is utterly false. These so called secular forces are in fact pseudo secular or anti secular forces and had never contested election on common platform of secularism. They in fact had contested against one another. The Congress which is engaged in competitive race of pseudo-secularism and the Samajwadi Party which is to have stated to support the UPA government from outside are lashing each other in Uttar Pradesh. Many of the constituents of the UPA government or its supporter parties were earlier with the NDA or at the state level they have shared power with the BJP. The Congress and the Janta Dal (Secular) had contested each other in recent Vidhan Sabha elections. The Janta Dal (S) had promised to constitute a special court to try the cases of corruption against the Chief Minister and many other Ministers of Congress. The Congress didn’t get mandate in the election, yet the Congress and the Janta Dal (S) have made an unholy alliance in the state in which those leaders have been sworn in as ministers who were likely to be prosecuted. All this has been done in the name of ‘defending secularism’. The perverted secularism of the Congress Party gets exposed from this fact that it has accommodated the member of a communal party like Muslim League in the Council of Ministers. For the first time in history, the member of a party responsible for the division of the country has been given representation in the central government in the name of secular fraternity. The Congress by inducting such fellows in the Council of Ministers against whom a long list of heinous crimes are registered in the name of maintaining secular fraternity has compromised with the dignity of the government of India. The Congress has tainted Untitled-2 3 11/8/2016 1:11:05 PM 4 • Party Document Vol-5 Indian Republic through criminalisation of the central rule instead of fighting the criminalisation of politics. The BJP together with its alliance partners has launched a campaign for removing these tainted ministers. The BJP demands for a law to be enacted in Parliament to debar the persons from contesting election or accepting any public post who are charge-sheeted for heinous crimes. The Congress party by making two power centers has even tainted the governing system under which Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh is acting as an assistant to the ‘Super Prime Minister’ Shrimati Sonia Gandhi. For the first time in the history of our country we have got a Prime Minister who is nominated, not elected and who is bereft of rights. The Congress party and its allies are derogating the honour of the Prime Minister’s office in a planned manner. The privilege of the Prime Minister to select the members for his council of Minister was violated when the DMK President, Dr. M. Karunanidhi signed a so called ‘MoU’ with the Congress General Secretary, Shri Jagmohan Reddy, which mentioned about the ministries that will be given to the DMK representatives. The BJP intends to caution entire political class of the country that lowering the dignity of the higher posts like that of the Prime Minister, emergence of Shrimati Sonia Gandhi as an extra constitutional authority and the complete surrender of the Congress party to a particular family is not an auspicious indication for our democracy. The Bharatiya Janta Party expresses its concern over emergence of the communists as the third power centre in the new power circle. Now it has become clear that the Congress is leading the UPA government on the basis of numbers but the communist power is leading from the point of ideology and programmes from the outside. Thus the communist party not only possesses the veto power but also controlling the hanging rope in its hand. The Chief Minister of West Bengal Shri Budhadeo Bhatacharya said that the new government was liable to follow its every dictate. This is the height of arrogance of any party. The left parties should not remain in illusion that they with just 63 seats may hijack the mandate. The mutual adjustment between the parties is wanting from the very first day of the formation of the UPA government. The External Affairs Minister has issued statements on important policy Untitled-2 4 11/8/2016 1:11:06 PM Political Resolutions • 5 matters without giving thoughtful consideration and discussing the same in the Committee on Cabinet Affairs related to Prime Minister or security putting the government in a peculiar situation. The Civil Aviation Minister issued a policy statement against which the members of Polit Bureau of the Communist Party staged a Dharna before the office of the Minister. The Human Resource Minister gave a statement regarding foreign direct investment in education, which was immediately criticized by the Communist parties. The Prime Minister and the Finance Minister had to rush in their efforts to undo loss with a view to persuading the investors who got confused on account of recession seen in the share market due to the statements of the communist leaders about the economic policies of the government.