UPA Victory Farce, Shameful; Say NDA Leaders

Patna: July 23, 2008

Frustrated Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders in Patna, following the UPA's victory in the trust vote on Tuesday, burnt the effigy of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi calling their victory shameful and 'stained with massive horse-trading'.

State BJP president Radha Mohan Singh, describing the UPA victory as a slap on the Indian democracy, said the party would burn the effigies of UPA leaders at all district headquarters in Bihar on Wednesday to expose the corrupt UPA leaders including Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Amar Singh and others.

BJP leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, while calling the whole exercise of trust motion a farce, demanded the Prime Minister's resignation and a high-level probe against UPA leaders accused of buying votes involving crores of rupees.

"This government has lost the confidence of the people and it must be immediately dissolved," said party state spokesperson Vinod Narayan Jha.

Janata Dal (U) leader and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, during a meeting of the party workers from Katihar and Purnia at his residence, also echoed the BJP leaders sentiments saying the UPA government had lost the moral grounds to remain in power after the way they manipulated support to score a political victory in the Parliament.

Kumar asked the party workers to go back to their base and start preparing for the Lok Sabha elections predicting a huge loss for the ruling UPA parties.

JD-U national general secretary Javed Reza described Tuesday as the 'black day' in the history of Independent India and demanded a CBI probe into the allegations of horse-trading.