Kolkata: BJP president Venkaiah Naidu on September 7 charged the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) with pursuing a dual policy in its relationship with the Congress and called upon the Forward Bloc and RSP to "take another look" their ties with the Marxist party.

Addressing the inaugural session of the BJP's two-day Eastern zonal conference, Naidu said while the CPI-M considered Congress its enemy in West Bengal, it had no qualms about joining hands with the party against the BJP in Gujarat.

Though the CPI-M had earlier accused Bihar's Rabri Devi government of perpetrating "jungle raj" in the state it did not, however, hesitate to support the government of which the Congress is also a part, Naidu pointed out.

''Both the Communists and the Congress must be exposed. They are two sides of the same coin. The RSP and Forward Bloc should take another look at ties with the CPI- M,'' he said.

Accusing West Bengal's CPI-M-led Left Front government of being "silent on ISI activities and violent on the RSS", the BJP chief said that the Marxist party no longer followed scientific socialism and instead, relied on scientific rigging to retain power.

''The Marxist-led West Bengal government has failed to address the problems of unemployment, bridge the rural-urban divide and raise the living standards of the people as in Southern and Western states. As per the latest CAG report, it had also failed to spend the Central grants for various projects in the state,'' he said.

PTI