Demand for President's rule in Assam rejected

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, DEC 20. Following a `dharna' by some Congress MPs and the submission of a memorandum to the President, Mr. K.R. Narayanan, demanding the recall of the Assam Governor and imposition of President's rule in the state, the Bharatiya Janata Party rejected this and went on to allege that a Congress-ULFA- ISI nexus was responsible for the increased violence in the State.

Mr. Tarun Gogoi, Congress MP, had led the party delegation to the President and submitted a memorandum demanding that the Governor be recalled and President's rule imposed in the State which has witnessed numerous mass killings.

In response to this, the BJP spokesperson, Mr. Vijay Kumar Malhotra, said the Congress role in the State was ``dubious and disturbing'' and in order to further its ``vote-bank politics,'' the Congress had joined hands with the ULFA, which in turn had links with the ISI.

Today, the BJP gave a good conduct certificate to the Governments in Assam, Tripura and Jammu and Kashmir, saying they had been doing the difficult job of fighting insurgency. But only a month earlier, senior party leaders had admitted that the Asom Gana Parishad Government had become extremely unpopular, that insurgency had increased during its rule and there was no question of the BJP joining hands with the AGP for the coming Assembly polls in Assam.

The State unit of the BJP has already let it be known that the party would prefer to fight the elections on its own.

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