As the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) looks set to form Government in Delhi with the help of the Congress, former External Affairs Minister and senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Saturday said that the Government formation exercise is a nautanki (drama) unleashed to the voters by these two parties.
"AAP came to the limelight after exposing various scams of the Congress. So the Congress was their main rival. And now they are aligning with the same party. What message this will send among the peopleIJ Even if this Government is formed it won't last," Sinha said adding, "The BJP wants a re-election so that a stable Government is formed in Delhi."
Sinha said that the referendum ploy of the AAP was a futile exercise and the BJP was looking ahead for a re-election to get clear mandate in Delhi.
Speaking about the Narendra Modi's Vijay Sankalp Rally scheduled here for December 29, Sinha said that this rally would change the politics of the State forever. He said that in lok Sabha elections the party would go with two issues, inflation and corruption — which had been the weakness of the UPA Government.
"This Government is absolutely helpless in controlling inflations. When 8.5 million tonnes of grains are there in the godowns the food inflation is around 20 per cent. Ours is a very tolerant nation otherwise people would have come out on streets chasing the Government out of power," he said.
Sinha also talked on the prospects of the BJP in Jharkhand in the forthcoming general elections. Out of 14 parliamentary seats in Jharkhand, the BJP had won eight seats in 2009. And in 2004 elections when the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpeyee had given the famous India Shining slogan the parry could manage only one seat.
"The next (2014) general elections will be very much different from 2004 elections. Under the leadership of Narendra Modi a resurgent BJP will be able to sweep throughout the State. In the past 13 years of existence of Jharkhand the BJP has held all the 14 seats at some time or the other. There is no reason therefore why we can't win all the seats in the next elections," Sinha said.
Expressing his views on the recently concluded session of Parliament, Sinha said that sine die adjournment on December 18 was "unprecedented" since earlier this session was to conclude on December 20.
"It was for the first time in the history that the session was adjourned sine die two days ahead of the scheduled time. The ruling alliance deliberately affected this so that they could avoid our questions. And for the same reasons, even on the days when Parliament could sit together they disturbed the proceedings," Sinha concluded.