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This National Convention of the Nationalist Congress Party views with great concern the BJP Rule in the country. The encouragement to the communal fascist forces in their party to resort to divisive activities are destroying the unity and integrity of this nation. "'Unity in Diversity" which was the "Pride of the Nation" has been completely shattered. It is not strange that the Government has exposed its inability to take prompt decision and stern action, due to the pressure from extremist elements in their party in spite of NDA's comfortable majority in the Parliament.

The hate culture fomented by the Ayodhya dispute and the communal riots in Gujarat engineered by the VHP and Sangh Parivar outfits with the active backing of the Government as evidenced with the situation in Gujarat and the consequent fear psychosis among the religious minority throughout the country has shaken the very fundamentals of the Nation.

It may be noted that this communal politics of the Sangh Parivar has in turn encouraged many other political parties to work under the banner of religion, caste, sub-caste or ethnic groups. This in turn, has destroyed the social fabric of the nation so carefully nurtured by other great leaders. The people are shocked to understand why parties are using guns, trishuls, lathis, communal riots and political murders as legitimate means of securing political goals.

The NCP, though a young party, has deeply entrenched itself in the principles of secularism and development as enunciated by the founding fathers as the basis on which we can build a great nation.

1. Problems facing the country

The 5 years of NDA rule has exposed BJP's incapability to solve problems facing the country. They are least concerned about the pitiable condition of the people caused by their anti-poor and anti-farmer policies. More than a decade of implementation of new economic policy has proved that agriculture has been given a back seat in our policy. This has resulted in lower growth of agriculture and ruin.
Added to this, our failure to protect the interests of Indian agriculture and farmers at WTO forum has pushed more and more farmers to suicide. NCP firmly believes that agriculture in India is the means of livelihood for a vast majority of people and a weapon to maintain food security, so interest of farmers should be protected at all cost.

In addition to the creation of a viable national alternative, NCP appeals to unemployment youth, suffering farmers and ill-treated women to rise and organise for final battle of economic and social justice.
We are very worried about the stagnation in the industrial sector causing closure of thousands of units because of their inability to withstand competition from foreign products flooding the local markets. The Government who makes claims of high economic growth by publishing statistics does not care for the cause of workers thrown out of employment and driven to poverty on the so called successful implementation of the new economic reforms.

The reckless disinvestments programme of the Government has created not only large-scale unemployment, but also valuable profit making undertakings are being sold for a pittance all under the name of disinvesting before it is too late. The Government must come out clearly with its disinvestment programme and convince the people that only absolute loss making unviable units are likely to be disinvested.

In the absence of necessary infrastructure, technical guidance to improve quality and reduce cost of production, financial support and marketing assistance to promote exports, the Indian producers are at a disadvantage to face global competition.

It is heartening to note that our young boys and girls who have shown not only the country but the world what they can achieve, without any support from the Government, but only due to their sheer brilliance, India is on the verge of becoming the world's Information Technology Leader.

2. Corruption Eradication

Corruption is the severest bane on the society committed to the 'Rule of Law'. It has the potential of destroying the fundamentals of democratic values. Our Constitution envisaged and egalitarian society emanating from the 'welfare state'. Corruption has crept in every limb of our nation's state eating into its vitals like a termite. The NCP is committed to purging the society from this fatal evil. Various ways and means suggested for the majors to combat this devil have either failed or still labouring under the experiment. It is, however, broad consensus that the e-governance could prove to be the most effective instrument in eliminating corruption by reducing human touch at the implementation level. The NCP would endeavour to provide the instrument of e-governance at all the levels of governance.

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