New Delhi: BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Monday said NDA will continue the "crusade" against "rampant corruption" in the Congress-led UPA government in 2011 and frustrate the ruling party's "diversionary tactics to mislead the people".
"Congress is trying to create a smokescreen by raising the bogey of Hindu communalism to cover up its monumental corruption scams. But we will expose all such designs by organising nation-wide agitations to mobilise public opinion against failures and all round non-performance of the government," Gadkari said in an interview.
The BJP President completed one year in office, during which the party managed to combat in-fighting and scored an election victory in Bihar.
Gadkari accused the Manmohan Singh government of encouraging Pakistan-sponsored cross-border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the country by systematically pursuing a policy of "minority appeasement for vote-bank politics".
He said BJP-led NDA will launch massive rallies throughout the country till the budget session of Parliament starts in February. The alliance will concentrate on issues of terrorism, corruption, price rise, "appeasement" of minorities, "misuse" of CBI against political opponents and "discrimination" against NDA-ruled states.
Asked about Karnataka where the BJP government is facing charges of illegal land allotments by Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa to his sons, Gadkari said this was a "disinformation campaign of the Congress party".
The BJP President said the party had chalked out a three-pronged strategy for the assembly elections to be held in five states next year.
"These are improving the quality of party workers through training, mobilising BJP workers at the grass-root level by taking up issues which are agitating the people and educating the masses about politics for development for a positive vote on the Bihar model," Gadkari said.
He claimed that Bihar had rejected caste and religion- based vote bank politics.
"The Bihar victory is a lesson for all political parties and we in the NDA will continue to work together to defeat the sectarian politics of the Congress party and its allies who can go to any extent to play religion and caste-based politics of vote bank," Gadkari said.
Asked about the leadership tussle in the BJP when he took over the reins of the party a year ago, Gadkari said, "We are a collective leadership and take all decisions by consensus. The team spirit with which the top leadership has been working in the last one year has percolated down to the state and district levels of the party units."
He denied that there were any differences among the top leaders of the party.
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