The Bharatiya Janata Party resolved on Wednesday to organise campaigns to counter the assault on the party and its ideology.

It accused the Congress and Communist parties of undermining India's unity, integrity, security and democratic system through their ideological offensive against it for "short-term goals".

"The people's disillusionment is growing. Disillusionment will inevitably turn into disenchantment and intense dislike. In this situation, the role of the BJP is clear. The national council resolves that the party use every democratic means available -- both inside and outside Parliament, both alone and in cooperation with its allies in the NDA -- to oppose the government that is weakening India's security," read the draft political resolution tabled in the BJP's national council meeting.

The meeting was called to formalise the appointment of Lal Kishenchand Advani as president following the resignation of M Venkaiah Naidu ten days ago.

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The resolution alleged that the government was weakening India's security, declaring nationalist ideology and its adherents as its enemies, neglecting people's problems and giving governance a go by.

"It is proving to be a failure on one front after another," it said.

The document said in accordance with the fractured mandate in the Lok Sabha election, the government should have followed a responsible course of coalition statecraft and concentrated on good governance by seeking maximum cooperation from the opposition.

"The government, however, has chosen an exactly opposite course -- one of confrontation and vendetta against the BJP and the rest of the opposition. In the process, it is making a mess of governance, which is its primary duty," it said.

It further noted that from the point of India's parliamentary democracy, the more worrisome development in the past five months had been the "unprecedented devaluation and disempowerment" of the post of the prime minister.

"An alternative centre of power, which is widely recognised as being stronger than that of the prime minister, has emerged in the form of the chairperson of the "so-called National Advisory Council."

It also said that a third centre of power, which had lowered the status and weakened the PM's authority, was the Communist Party of India-Marxist leadership. "Not a day passes without the Communist leaders trying to show that the UPA government survives because of them."

The document said that never before had the government become "hostage to such blatant blackmailing and stonewalling" by the Communist parties as has been witnessed in the past five months.

It was for the first time since Independence that "criminal elements, who have been chargesheeted in cases of heinous crime, have been rewarded with ministership," read the draft.

It said that as a result of multiple centres of power and the prime minister's "helplessness" to remove tainted ministers from this government, the "quality of government had badly suffered".