New Delhi: The Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha also hit out at Congress spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed for seeking to "rewrite" history by his "desperate attempt to communalise the issue of national security" on his remarks on the birth of banned terrorist outfit Indian Mujahideen and linking it to the 2002 Gujarat riots.
"Faced with both the crisis of governance and a lack of leadership, UPA's desperate strategy appears to be to deflect the agenda. Under no circumstances must the destruction of 'The India's story' by UPA be allowed to occupy the centre stage of the electoral agenda.
"UPA has, therefore, only one option left. Communalise the polity in the country and change the electoral agenda. All those who want to throw UPA out of office must understand that their focus must remain on the issues of governance which UPA will try to duck," Jaitley said in an article.
On Ahmed's remarks on IM, the BJP leader said "the Congress Party's spokesman has sought to re-write history. His effort is to somehow paint Indian Mujahideen as an organization of the aggrieved who are victims of riots in Gujarat. He ignores the international context and Pakistan's strategy behind the creation of Indian Mujahideen. This is yet another desperate attempt to communalise an issue of national security."
Jaitley said Congress's conventional strategy has been that whenever they "fail" at governance it goes back to the last resort - the alleged charisma of Congress Party's first family, which "appears inadequate". "The outgoing leadership of UPA is perceived to be ineffective; the incoming are perceived to be non-leaders," he said.
Jaitley said serious political observers are unable to understand why the official spokesperson of Congress party could have rationalised the formation of Indian Mujahideen in India, as an organisation formed as a reaction against the riots in Gujarat in 2002 when the organisation was banned by a number of nations. He said UPA in its 10th year of its existence is confronted with a huge anti-incumbancy and there is a "visible leadership failure".
"Its leadership is seen to be ineffective. Its governance is highly inadequate. The government has run out of ideas on how to bring the economy back on rails. The UPA has added corruption as a new directive principle of state policy," he said. Jaitley cited three visible indicators in the last few weeks that have witnessed "a crude attempt by UPA leaders" at their strategy of of communalising ther 2014 electoral agenda, with Modi-bashing being one, CBI's handling in the Ishrat Jahan case being another and the Congress spokesperson's statement on IM being the third.
"In Gujarat, the initial strategy of Congress was to excessively attack Modi. Modi always excelled in this political battle with Congress. He got the better of them. Finding this strategy counter-productive, the Congress would then go back to the alternate strategy of pretending that Modi did not exist as far as their campaign was concerned," he said.
He said the Centre's strategy through CBI in Ishrat Jehan case has puzzled many as the CBI strategy has been to play down and eventually ignore the LeT connection and uncover the entire security apparatus of this country. "Without going into the veracity of the encounter or otherwise, I raise the above questions since they indicate that a conscious effort is being made to project the LeT module as a martyr and India's security and intelligence set up as the villain. Is this a conscious pact of a strategy to perpetuate vote bank at the cost of national security?," Jaitley said.
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