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Jain report will blow up in Kesri's face: E M S

D Jose in Thiruvananthapuram

The Jain Commission report which the Congress is using as its trump card to capture power in Delhi will, in all probability, boomerang, according to Communist Party of India-Marxist leader E M S Namboodiripad.

In his weekly talk on the Asianet television channel, the veteran Marxist said the Commission clearly points out that the circumstances leading to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination was entirely a creation of the Congress.

The report, which is yet to see the light of the day, says it was the Congress leaders who had taken Rajiv Gandhi to Sriperumbudur. It also refutes their charge that it was only the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam which encouraged the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Tamil Nadu, Namboodiripad said.

"The case will prove to be a deadly weapon against the Congress if all these factors come out," the CPI-M patriarch said.

Namboodiripad believes a mid-term poll is inevitable as the United Front has 'unanimously' rejected the demand for the DMK ministers's ouster. He held the Congress solely responsible for the current state of affairs.

"Congress leaders think only they have the right to rule the country." he said, "They brought down the Deve Gowda government with this end in view."

When the UF started off under Inder Kumar Gujral, the Congress had thought it would accept whatever the leadership said. It was this belief that saw them serving an ultimatum to remove the DMK ministers.

"Unfortunately for the Congress, not even a single UF constituent was in favour of such a course," Namboodiripad said.

Speaking about the coming election, the veteran said, just as last time, there will be a triangular contest between the Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party and UF this time too.

Namboodiripad said the UF is a cohesive and strong force to defeat the Congress and BJP, who have become weak after the last poll. Though they both had desperately tried to split the UF, they failed.

"The credentials and policies of the Congress and BJP will prove to be a negative factor for them," he said, "People know that both the parties are neck-deep in corruption and other evils."

"They are surrendering the country's domestic market and economic freedom before foreign capitalists through their policies of privatisation, liberalisation and globalisation, which are against Indian interests," the CPI-M leader said.

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