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Political exchanges heat up as Bihar readies for polls

     Ahmedabad/New Delhi: The Opposition BJP on Thursday slammed the Centre saying its report card was too poor. "The Centre's report card is so poor that even the Supreme Court has to indict it thrice. The judiciary has passed three judgements against it, the recent one being on the dissolution of the Bihar Assembly," said BJP president LK Advani in Ahmedabad. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court ruled that a government decision to dissolve the legislature in Bihar was unconstitutional, but it stopped short of overturning the move. The court's ruling came as an embarrassment to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Congress party-led UPA coalition ahead of polls, to elect a new assembly in Bihar to be held in four phases beginning October 18. Bihar votes in phases between October 18 and November 19. Votes will be counted on November 22 and results are expected the same day. Meanwhile, LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan, while refusing to comment on the apex court's verdict or the demand for resignation of Governor Buta Singh, who recommended the dissolution of the assembly said, that his party was the biggest victim in the entire episode. "I do not want to say anything on the demand for resignation of Buta Singh nor can I say anything on the Supreme Court. All I can say that in the entire episode, Lok Janshakti party has been the worst sufferer," he told at a news conference in New Delhi. However, Buta Singh refused to make any comment on the recent court order. "I shall only say that in our Constitution the Supreme Court is the highest authority and its order is respected by all. At this stage I cannot say anything," he said in New Delhi. New Delhi dissolved Bihar's legislature in May in a move that appeared aimed at preventing the BJP-led alliance from forming a coalition after the Congress and its feuding allies failed to cobble a majority, following a fractured mandate.

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