Left-UPA stand-off will lead to early poll: BJP

He said his party has asked all its state units to get ready for early polls.

Claiming that mid-term polls were now “unavoidable”, the BJP leader said while Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was keen to go ahead with the nuclear deal the Left has been opposing it and was reconsidering its support to the UPA.

There was every possibility of the Left withdrawing its support to the government by August 15, he claimed.

However, he added the elections may not be held immediately and it was likely by the year end or early next year.

The BJP leader alleged Congress lacked the “commitment, skill and patience to run a coalition government. Many allies of the ruling coalition had already pulled out and others were weighing their options,” he said.

“Manmohan Singh did not show maturity in handling the Indo-US civil nuclear deal. He did not take its allies into confidence over the issue,” Naidu alleged.

According to the BJP leader, the 123 agreement was only an excuse as Congress and Left parties had already made up their mind about parting ways and going for polls.

Moreover, they have reached an understanding to once again join hands after the polls only to keep the BJP at bay, he claimed, adding “they cannot live together nor can they live separately but they need each other”.

The state BJP units have been directed to identify constituencies, declare candidates and adopt the same strategies which led the party to victory in Gujarat and Karnataka, Naidu said.

Rise in prices of essential commodities and petroleum products and absence of concrete measures to rein in inflation had thrown the UPA government into a “crisis”, he alleged.

During the NDA regime, the economic condition was sound, as admitted by Finance Minister P Chidambaram himself, but now even the foreign reserves had come down, he said.

Under the present UPA rule, India’s relations with neighbouring countries including China and Myanmar had soured, the BJP leader alleged.

Islamists based in Pakistan were renewing their ‘jihadi’ activities against India posing a grave threat to the country, he added.