Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Cong must explain support to Afzal: Katiyar

(VISAKOE, 8/11) The BJP central leadership on Wednesday urged upon the State leadership to provide unflinching support to the newly elected State unit president Suresh Pujari. Addressing a huge public meeting on Wednesday, general secretary of BJP in-charge of Orissa Vinay Katiyar said with the necessary support provided to the State leadership, the party could come out victorious in the forthcoming panchayat elections.
 
The meeting was organised to felicitate the newly elected president Pujari. Earlier, BJP Mahila Morcha national president Karuna Shukla announced Suresh Pujari had been unanimously elected as the State president of the party. Coming down heavily upon the Congress, Katiyar said the way the Congress was supporting the prime accused in the Parliament attack had created a strong resentment in the public.
 
"The Congress must have to answer why it has been supporting Afzal Guru responsible for the attack. Guru must be hung and Sonia Gandhi has to answer why the party has taken such a soft stand and become so lenient to the terrorist organisations," he said, adding the BJP and its alliance partner would no more tolerate the way national song Vande Mataram was being constantly mistreated.
 
He further said that the Congress party would be ousted from power and the process had already begun in Uttar Pradesh. The BJP had already grabbed a number of chairmen posts in the recently held urban local body election in Uttar Pradesh and it would be reflected soon in the whole country, he added.
 
Katiyar said if the NDA again came to power, Central assistance would again pour into Orissa. He further indicated that outgoing president Oram would be given more responsibility at the national level.
 
On this occasion, outgoing president Jual Oram admitted the party had not got the desired result in the Talsara by-election. But it should not act as a demoralising factor, he added. He also recollected how the party has been strengthened over the years and how the activists took part in each rally starting from Tiranga rally in Bangalore to Kisan Morcha in Delhi and how all of them participated in Rajnath Singh's Bharat Suraksha Yatra. He further reiterated how the party successfully organised rail roko on different occasions to protest against the apathetic attitude of the Centre.
 
The new president Suresh Pujari said he would try to strengthen the party at the grassroot level and put all effort to expedite party programmes at different levels. He said under his leadership the BJP would act as a bridge between the Government, party and the public. He would put more focus on building mutual cooperation between the party and the Government. Relationship between the BJP and BJD would be further strengthened, he said.
 

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