BJP's personalised attacks won't do any good: Cong

In a threatening tone, indicating that it had reached the end of its patience with the Bharatiya Janata Party and its aggressive style of politics, the Congress warned the top BJP leadership that if it did not change its style of politics and stop its 'personalised attacks' on Congress leaders, the party 'could retaliate and this could prove costly for the BJP.'

All India Congress Committee General Secretary Janardhan Dwivedi spoke to mediapersons after the BJP launched a frontal attack against the top Congress leadership, saying that 'the low level of politics which the BJP had undertaken was bad for democracy' and its effects would be visible in the years ahead.

He said the BJP was degrading the quality of public life, as 'certain standards have to be maintained in public life.'

"Does BJP want an investigation into allegations leveled against its leaders from time to time by the very persons who were at some point of time close to them? No body knows who will stand where if fingers are raised on the top leadership of any party by linking distant relations," said Dwivedi while speaking about the manner in which the BJP was attacking the Congress.

He also advised the opposition party to 'mend its language and the style of politics' saying this will do a great deal of good to the country as 'larger parties also have larger responsibilities in a democracy.'

Dwivedi said that in the long run, the BJP style of politics will prove harmful for the nation. He said from the look of it, the 'BJP was finding it difficult to carry on in the opposition for the next four years and were becoming impatient to return to power.'

There are differences even within the BJP on whether to name Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in their political resolution as a beneficiary of the Bofors kickbacks. Senior BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley have pointed out that it could prove to be counter-productive, while party president Nitin Gadkari has launched a no-holds-barred attack on the Congress leadership.

Meanwhile, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha is rattled by the manner in which the Congress and the government have targeted its activists for alleged acts of 'saffron-terror.'

The RSS and sections of the BJP are finding it difficult to defend the involvement of its members in different bomb blasts across the country; and with certain states 'active in exposing the so called sadhus and sants,' the battle lines are tightly drawn between the BJP and the Congress with a daily exchange of words, charges and counter charges.

However, the BJP has successfully put the Congress and the United Progressive Alliance government on the defensive on the issue of corruption and scams, leaving the latter in an embarrassing position.