The manner in which the BJP has installed the Kalyan Singh ministry in UP has thoroughly exposed the party's unprincipled opportunism and resort to corrupt practices. The formation of a 93 member ministry with a large number of persons with criminal backgrounds, and the attempts to lure further defectors has damaged the party's credibility and its so called adherence to principles. The BJP top leadership is now openly advocating similar tactics at the national level which shows how deep the rot has set into the party.

The Central Committee condemns the partisan role of the speaker of the UP Assembly.

The Central Committee noted that for the first time a majority of MLAs belonging to the Congress (I) in a state assembly have crossed over to the BJP ... in Uttar Pradesh. This shows the extent of corrosion in the political-ideological level of the Congress party which claims to represent secular traditions in the country. The compromising approach to communalism, which became the hallmark of the Congress ... is now coming home to roost. It is for the Congress leadership to forthrightly give up this wrong approach taken in the past and take firm secular position. (Source: The People's Democracy, 16 Nov., 1997)