Law Kumar Mishra
Raipur, February 25
While ruling out the possibility of participating as a member of the ‘third front, the Congress party has called for a ‘Constitutional and Legal’ alliance of like-minded opposition parties that will move the Supreme Court against the alleged mis-use of the investigative agencies.
Senior Congress leader, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who presented a 58 points nine page ‘political resolution’ during the second day of the 85th plenary session of the party in Raipur on Saturday, said that there was a need to immediate need to initiate discussion to tackle the misuse of ED, CBI and the Income Tax department to target the opposition parties.
“The Congress should initiate immediate discussions with 15 like-minded opposition parties and form a ‘constitutional and legal alliance’ to move the Supreme Court against the alleged misuse of probe agencies by the Centre. The opposition parties must jointly announce that whenever there is a change of government at the Centre, a commission will be set up to investigate any misuse of the probe agencies and the role of all officers and bureaucrats who were prima facie party to such misuse will be investigated and appropriate action taken against them, he said while putting across the political resolution and his suggestions.
He further suggested that whenever there is change in the government at the Centre, existing laws on electoral bonds and anti-defection law should be changed to prevent electoral malpractice and any attempts to topple elected governments. He also asked the like-minded parties to come together to resist the attempts being made to control the judiciary.
Earlier, the party made it clear that it was not going to support the idea of a ‘Third front’ in the runup to the 2024 general elections.
The party, in one of the multiple resolutions presented on Saturday, said that ‘the emergence of any third force will provide an advantage to the BJP/NDA’ and asked ‘like-minded’ parties to follow its lead in its fight against the BJP.
This has come even as regional leaders including Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Telangana CM Chandrashekar Rao are trying to emerge as the leader of the combined opposition.
“Unity of secular and socialist forces will be the hallmark of the future of the Congress party. Congress should go all out to identify, mobilise and align like-minded secular forces. We should include secular regional forces who agree with our ideology. There is an urgent need for a united opposition to take on the NDA on common ideological grounds. The emergence of any third force will provide an advantage to the BJP/NDA,” the party said in a resolution.
