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BJP's victory an 'accident': Congress
India’s ruling Congress party on Tuesday called Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s tutelage of the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to victory in the Assembly elections a “mid-way accident” of reselling the communal card as “Gujarat pride” and hoped he does not carry this card “beyond the frontiers of Gujarat” if he has national ambitions.
Yep. That's the way to win the next election: Describe your opposition winning this one as a fluke.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee could become the prime minister since he wore a liberal face and Modi has to play a similar positive role if he wants to enter national politics, Congress party’s media chairman Veerappa Moily said, in what he described as “advice from a brother”. He also appealed to Modi to discard the communal card now that he has won according to polls.

No Regrets: Moily, however, commended Modi for the corrective steps he took in denying the ticket to many sitting BJP MLAs to skirt the “anti-incumbency” while asserting that “we have no regrets for losing because we put up the fight against communalism”.

He pointed out that it is absolutely wrong to dub Congress pro-Muslim since it stands against fundamentalism of any religion, be it Hinduism or Islam. As a result of the Gujarat elections, he said the “process of polarisation will firm up as we want a more determined fight, keeping secularism and security of the country at the top”.


Posted by: Fred 2007-12-25
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=215276