Cong ready to do business with SP

Her remarks came on a day when SP General Secretary Amar Singh returned from his US visit and sent signals that his party was not averse to doing business with Congress in the context of the current crisis.

8220;National crisis does not belong to politics. This belongs to nation. If the Prime Minister of India wants to engage in discussions, it is not wrong to talk to him.

You may agree to disagree but non-communication is the worst thing in politics,8221; he said shortly on arrival here from his trip to the US.

Singh is expected to open channels of communication with the Government looking for the party8217;s support in Lok Sabha.

The two parties have been at loggerheads till a few months back but have started warming up to each other after BSP8217;s victory in Uttar Pradesh.

The AICC briefing also saw Natrajan making it clear that Congress was 8216;committed to taking forward8217; the nuclear deal.

A day after the CPI-M declared that it would withdraw support to the government if it went ahead with the deal, she dismissed as 8220;unwarranted, baseless and untrue8221; the Left charge that the government was not following an independent foreign policy.