‘It’s a commercial break, mid-term polls ahead’

The country would soon witness a mid-term Parliamentary election and continued talks between the Left and Congress on nuclear deal was only a ‘commercial break’, Venkaiah Naidu said.

The country would soon witness a mid-term Parliamentary election and continued talks between the Left and Congress on nuclear deal was only a ‘commercial break’, senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu said.

“There is every possibility of a mid-term election and currently both the Congress and Left parties have taken a commercial break,” Naidu said at the BJP headquarters.

“Like electronic media take commercial breaks between a programme, yesterday’s announcement by Congress leaders was a commercial break only,” he said.

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The former BJP national president also pulled up Congress president Sonia Gandhi for her clarification on the Jhajhar meeting that her utterances were not against Left parties.

“Indo-US relation is a local problem of Jhajhar, because of which she said any one opposing them is an enemy of development,” Naidu said and also accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Gandhi of making a ‘U-turn’ on their stand on nuke deal.

Every day Congress is changing its stand on the issue and the government has lost its credibility and has become a ‘lame duck’, he said.

The alliance partners of UPA have differences on almost all issues, including foreign policy, economic policy, investment, labour, Kashmir, relations with United States, Iran and Iraq among others, he said.

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