07-16-2008, 12:43 PM
<b>PM must seek fresh mandate, says Rajnath
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Tue, Jul 15 02:39 AM
BJP president Rajnath Singh on Monday said the Government propped up by the Samajwadi Party would be worse than the UPA coalition supported by the Left.
Singh alleged that such an indication came when an SP leader was found going through Commerce Ministry files the very day his party decided to support the Congress.
"We request the Prime Minister to resign and seek a fresh mandate because even if the present dispensation survives the trust vote, there will only be a Government but no governance," the BJP leader told reporters. Though the UPA Government was set to fall, the NDA coalition would not indulge in malpractices like horse-trading to make that happen. He accused the Congress of using all means to stay in power.
"The Congress-Left alliance was an opportunistic one and not based on common ideology. The Congress and UPA were in the clutches of the Left parties, which caused immense damage to the country," he said, adding that the NDA was the only coalition capable of providing a stable Government.
He said the BJP was suspicious of the way the Left withdrew support to the UPA coalition. Though he did not elaborate on his suspicion, he said nothing had changed since the time Left expressed its opposition to the deal and the time it actually withdrew its support. He said the BJP was very clear: "We want strategic relationship with the US but we want to be treated on equal footing."
The BJP MPs will explain to the masses how the nuclear deal would affect the country's nuclear sovereignty but it won't be the main campaign agenda.
"There are bigger issues like inflation, terrorism, Naxalism and farmers' distress," he added. In reply to a question, he said the BJP would build a temple at Ayodhya only if it got a clear majority at the Centre.
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Tue, Jul 15 02:39 AM
BJP president Rajnath Singh on Monday said the Government propped up by the Samajwadi Party would be worse than the UPA coalition supported by the Left.
Singh alleged that such an indication came when an SP leader was found going through Commerce Ministry files the very day his party decided to support the Congress.
"We request the Prime Minister to resign and seek a fresh mandate because even if the present dispensation survives the trust vote, there will only be a Government but no governance," the BJP leader told reporters. Though the UPA Government was set to fall, the NDA coalition would not indulge in malpractices like horse-trading to make that happen. He accused the Congress of using all means to stay in power.
"The Congress-Left alliance was an opportunistic one and not based on common ideology. The Congress and UPA were in the clutches of the Left parties, which caused immense damage to the country," he said, adding that the NDA was the only coalition capable of providing a stable Government.
He said the BJP was suspicious of the way the Left withdrew support to the UPA coalition. Though he did not elaborate on his suspicion, he said nothing had changed since the time Left expressed its opposition to the deal and the time it actually withdrew its support. He said the BJP was very clear: "We want strategic relationship with the US but we want to be treated on equal footing."
The BJP MPs will explain to the masses how the nuclear deal would affect the country's nuclear sovereignty but it won't be the main campaign agenda.
"There are bigger issues like inflation, terrorism, Naxalism and farmers' distress," he added. In reply to a question, he said the BJP would build a temple at Ayodhya only if it got a clear majority at the Centre.