LUCKNOW: In what is bound to be seen by the Opposition as a "communal and political spin", the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to distribute literature and CDs showing the situation in Assam after the recent communal violence and details of coal scam to the party workers, who in turn will make the masses aware about the two developments.

The decision to this effect was taken at the meeting of party working committee members here on Thursday.

Already opposed to "pro-minority policies" of the Samajwadi Party government in the state, the saffron party, it seems, has taken a hardened stand on the issues of communalism and corruption to strike a chord with the voters, who in the early 90s got attracted towards the party for leading the Ayodhya movement.

Continuing with same tone and tenor, the BJP has decided to distribute CDs and literature of situation after Assam violence and Coal-gate to the party workers throughout the state. After going through the literature and watching the CDs, the party workers had been directed to then make the common man aware about the two issues, party state president Lakshmikant Bajpayi said adding, there is anger among the people over the scams, Assam violence, Muslim appeasement policy of the SP government, etc.

The BJP's state unit would also set up a helpline service through a toll-free number. Through the number, any person throughout the state can tell the party about his/her problem, said Bajpayi adding, that subsequently efforts would be made by the party office-bearers and workers to solve the problem.

Party spokesperson Vijay Kumar Pathak said that it is the failure of state government that people are making a beeline at the janata darshan of the Chief Minister.

Meanwhile, BJP leader Kirit Somaiya on Thursday questioned the role of Union coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal in connection with the Coalgate scam. Somaiya said as the investigations into the scam had started, Jaiswal should also clarify his stand that whether or not he himself had benefited from the dubious allocation of coal mining blocks. "We would like to know from our coal minister that if Vijay Darda paid the family of Manoj Jaiswal, who is related to coal minister, 12 billion rupees through a third party deal, then how much money does Sriprakash Jaiswal himself have in unregistered firms or firm registered under a third person's name," he said. Somaiya further said that scams have been depriving the nation, which is in a dire need of development.

This reflects the fact that the Akhilesh Yadav-led government has failed to provide relief to the people. Pathak added that in such a situation, setting up of toll-free number would help the people to get relief.

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However, once the popularity graph of the party-with-a-difference started dipping as Ram wave started abating by late 90s, the number of party MLAs in the UP Assembly came down to less than 50. Party insiders also see several other reasons for the party's downfall, including hardliners gradually replacing moderates at the helm of affairs in the state.

The UP assembly election results probably acted as wake up call for the party leaders at the national level after the party candidates could grab only 47 seats in the 401-member UP assembly. A hardliner face Dr Laxmikant Bajpayi replaced Surya Pratap Shahi as state BJP president after the latter stepped down taking moral responsibility.

Conincidently, the ruling Samajwadi Party known for pro-minority stance came to power in UP. As expected, the state BJP leaders protested several decisions taken by Akhilesh-led SP government claiming that they were a bid to appease members of minority community ignoring the members of other community.