Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Rajnath Singh on Saturday accused the Congress of using religion to practice a brand of divisive politics.
Addressing participants at a meeting of the party's National Executive Council, Singh reiterated that Narendra Modi wasIndia's future, and that it was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who has been a disaster in terms of governance at the Centre for the past decade.
Singh also charged Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi with trying to appropriate credit for the passage of the Lokpal Bill, when the actual accolade should go to veteran social activist Anna Hazare and to the BJP for putting pressure on the government to pass it.
"The governments provided by Narendra Modi in Gujarat, Shivraj Singh Chauhan in Madhya Pradesh and Raman Singh in Chhattisgarh have put a question mark over the Congress' future in these states. The Congress fears that a strong government under Modi could do the same at the national level," the BJP president said.
Singh, however, refrained from naming the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) during his speech, but suggested that the Congress may use Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's organisation's growing clout to spoil the BJP's march to victory.
Antagonism against the Congress was growing mainly due its policies of malgovernance, indecisiveness and corruption, he claimed.
"Congress can see the writing on the wall and knows that defeat is writ large there. Congress is losing the elections and hence is trying to ensure that BJP does not get a clear majority. It is making every effort to stop the BJP's march to success," BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar later told reporters, quoting Singh.
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The Congress is trying every trick in the book to ensure that a weak government is formed at the Centre,Rajnath Singh said.
The Congress is supporting the AAP government in Delhi and BJP has often alleged that the latter is the B-team of the former.
Singh also referred to the issue of secularism.
"The party president gave the assurance that BJP-led NDA will form a government which will not only be strong on economics and ethics but will also never compromise on the issue of nationalism," Javadekar said.
Singh described UPA government as an NPA-non-performing asset- and said it is time to write it off.
He further said that people will give a decisive mandate to BJP and NDA will form a government at the Centre.
He congratulated Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje for their victories in last year's state assembly polls.
At the on-going national Executive meet, BJP will give final touches to its resolutions on the political and economic situation in the country.
These two resolutions will be passed at the two-day national council.
State units will also present reports on their state of preparedness for the Lok Sabha elections and formation of booth level committees.
The party will also set its roadmap for the electoral battle ahead.