Shillong, Sept 5: The AICC national spokesperson Bobbeeta Sharma has asked the National Peoples’ Party (NPP) to pull out of the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre and refrain from a double face attitude.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Sharma said people will not vote for the NPP and the coalition partners if they remain with the BJP at the Centre.
Sharma was quick to add that she is suspicious of the NPP’s intention when the Chief Minister Conrad Sangma had said that after elections they may join the BJP.
“That means to win elections you want the peoples’ vote just to make them believe that you are not with the BJP but after you win the peoples’ trust that you are not with the BJP by making them believe that you will again join them after the elections isn’t that a double face attitude of the NPP? This is for the people to question them,” she said.
According to the AICC leader as a responsible opposition, it is her task to point it out.
“Now it is for the people to realise how some politicians – I am not pointing out at every politician or political party – use the peoples’ sentiments for their personal interests,” she said.
Communal disharmony
Sharma said the NPP is saying that it does not want to tie up with the BJP in the next elections because they have also realised that the BJP is not actually creating harmony between people.
“We are shocked to hear that churches are being desecrated even in Meghalaya and we want to know whether this is the kind of society people want where they can’t even have a church or a temple to pray in peace. So this religious harmony that was there has been destroyed by the BJP,” Sharma alleged.
She asserted that religion should not enter the political space at all.
“Once it enters political space it is running the fabric of the country and I feel it is not the government’s job to meddle into religious affairs”, she added.
