The Bharatiya Janata Party national executive on Wednesday proposed a resolution to rededicate the party to its idealism and redouble its commitment to developmental issues, specially for farmers and rural and urban poor.
The party in its resolution undertook to overcome organisational shortcomings, which cost it dear in states like Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha polls.
The resolution expressed confidence in the leadership of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and senior party leader Lal Kishenchand Advani and said the party had grown under the statesmanship of Vajpayee.
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However, the party said its pre-election assessment was not good and it did not properly reflect the mood of the electorate.
The BJP resolved to launch a campaign against the Congress-led government for soft-pedalling the issues of terrorism and infiltration.
It criticised the United Progressive Alliance's common minimum programme for not taking about terrorism and also resolving to scrap the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
The BJP "wishes to alert the entire political class of the country" about the "belittling" of the high office of the prime minister by the manner in which Manmohan Singh was appointed the leader of the government by the Congress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi, it said.
"For the fist time in the country we have a selected prime minister and not an elected one," the resolution said.
"Mr Manmohan Singh plays a second fiddle to the 'super Prime Minister' Smt Sonia Gandhi," the resolution said and added that the Congress and its allies were "systematically" diluting the dignity of the PM's office.
The election "verdict requires that BJP and NDA play the role of a constructive and responsible opposition", he said.
"The BJP views with much concern the rise of the communists as the third power centre in the new ruling establishment. It is now clear that, although the UPA is numerically led by the Congress, it is ideologically and programmatically led from outside by the CPI-M, which also holds the veto power and the rope to the guillotine," the resolution said.
"Under the compulsion of maintaining secular solidarity, Congress party has compromised with the very sanctity of the Government of India by inducting several persons with well recorded involvement in heinous crimes into the Council of Ministers," the resolution said.
"The BJP demands that Parliament pass an effective law for barring persons who are chargesheeted in cases of heinous crimes from contesting elections and holding office in public life."