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New Delhi, March 15: "BJP and Congress are not born to rule this country and both the parties do not represent India in totality", said CPI national secretary D Raja while speaking to IANS over the prospects of third front.
"There are new social classes and forces that are emerging which are not represented by BJP and Congress. We are confident that Third Front will ruin prospects of both BJP and Congress. And that's whyboth BJP and Congress are jittery. Third Front is a better choice for the people of this country", he added.
D Raja accused both parties (BJP and Congress) of deviating from their basic values. "Both the parties are in total crisis and it's not only political or ideological, it's also a moral crisis. Congress claims to be an 'aam aadmi' govt but it has nothing to do with the 'aam aadmi'. It has failed to address the issues of livelihood of the common man. On the other hand BJP is a communal party which thinks that it can make electoral gains by dividing people on basis of religion."
He also criticized Congress-led UPA government for signing nuclear deal with United States and moving India closer to US administration. "Nuclear cooperation between US and India is more than building strategic partnership. The deal has increasingly threatened the sovereignty of India", he told IANS.
He further elaborated on the effects of economic slowdown that Indo-US nuclear deal is going to face in future, and wondered as to how the US is going to invest in nuclear business when the whole nation is currently in the throes of grave financial crisis.
"The whole US is in financial crisis and I don't see the possibility of US investing in nuclear business," he said.
Talking about the first commercial pact signed with French company Areva to build atomic power plants in India, D Raja argued that how it would be possible for France or other nation to build such reactors when the recession has affected the West in a severe manner.
When asked whether CPI would join hands with Congress after general elections to fend off BJP from coming to power, Raja cleverly steered clear of this issue by saying, "Let the election be over". However, he didn't deny the possibility of joining hands with the Congress in wake of hung Parliament to restrain BJP from gaining power.
When asked about CPI's stance on Samajwadi Party after the latter chose to go with nuclear deal overlooking the former, Raja clearly said, "We have no common ground with Samajwadi Party. During Presidential election, SP went with BJP to elect APJ Abdul Kalam while during the trust vote on N-deal they voted in favour of Congress-led UPA government.
However, he approved BSP's ideology and politics describing it as a fight against social oppression.
When asked that CPI is against BJP for its alleged communal politics then why it has no problem in joining hands with BSP- a party based on caste politics, he said, "BSP is not a castiest party. Mayawati (BSP president) does not represent a caste but the deprived sections of the society."
"Do you think if somebody speaks for 'Dalits', it is casteism", Raja questioned.
"Politically, UP CM Mayawati is closer to us since she is fighting both the Congress and BJP, which I think is a positive sign," he added.
Reacting over the Sri Lankan Tamil issue, D Raja who himself is a Tamil and a Rajya Sabha MP from Tamil Nadu, accused the Indian government of supplying arms to Sri Lankan forces for fighting LTTE. "Indian government has no clear policy over the Tamil issue," he said.
However, he expressed his concerns over the issue. "We are very much concerned on this, and have formed a movement called 'Sri Lankan Tamil Protection Movement' along with other political groups in Tamil Nadu."
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