Uma to launch epic struggle in October

Jabalpur, July 9 (UNI) Bharatiya Janshakti (BJ) Founder President Uma Bharti today declared that a political struggle of epic proportions would be launched in Madhya Pradesh after October and might lead to the downfall of the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led BJP government.

''By October end, the BJ's membership campaign and formation of district and panchayat-level units will be over,'' Ms Uma Bharti said at a press conference before ddressing a public meeting at this district's Patan rural area as part of her Bharat Suraksha Yatra.

Claiming that the struggle would be fought all the way upto Delhi, Ms Uma Bharti said that the ''war'' would affect several BJP leaders.

''The BJ will field candidates in every bypoll including Malehra and Vidisha. After October, I will undertake comprehensive tours and gather information from the public about the BJP regime. The law and order situation has plummetted. It is surprising that a theft took place at Bhopal's Police Control Room,'' she alleged.

Stressing that her party would forge alliances only with those outfits that followed the BJ's 'Panch Nishtha', Ms Bharti described the Gondwana Ganatantra Party (GGP) as possessing honest leaders while adding that GGP supremo Heera Singh Markham and Working President Dileep Singh Bhuria were respectable leaders.

''BJ General Secretary Prahlad Patel and state unit chief Raghunandan Sharma have been entrusted the work of swelling the party's ranks,'' she said.

Describing as erroneous the disinvestment of the profit-making Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd and NALCO, Ms Bharti said that she opposed their disinvestment while she was Union minister.

''There is a need for reviewing the country's economic policy and privatisation besides stressing on employment opportunities along with development. Due to an erroneous economic policy, farmers are committing suicide. Seven peasants killed themselves after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Vidarbha tour,'' she added.

Claiming that the BJ would provide clean politics and an honest government, Ms Bharti regretted that most political parties were focussed merely on grabbing power.

''Until sometime back, the BJP and communist parties focussed on ideology but that is no longer the case. The Left crossed the limits by being a limb of the UPA government that cuts the throats of the impoverished,'' she claimed.

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