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This is an archive article published on June 24, 2008

UPA Govt may fall any day, mid-term polls likely: BJP

BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu said there is possibility of mid-term polls in wake of sharp difference among constituents of UPA.

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Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said that there were possibility of mid-term polls in the country in the wake of sharp difference among the constituents of United Progressive Alliance (UPA).

Keeping in view the possibility of mid-term polls, the BJP Vice-president said that the party has intensified its preparations for the elections.

“Mutual co-ordination and trust among UPA partners have collapsed. The Central government has failed on price front. On the other hand, verbal dual is on among UPA allies on the issue of Indo-US Nuclear deal,” Naidu, who was on his way to Ujjain to attend a function, told reporters in Indore.

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He said that differences among UPA allies have gone to the level that the coalition government may fall any day.

“Though BJP is not in a hurry for mid-term polls, but keeping the developments in view, we have intensified our preparations in this regard,” he said.

The former BJP Chief said while Prime Minister Manmohan Singh favours forward movement on the deal, UPA constituents, like RJD, NCP and DMK were of the view that such step would lead to fall of the coalition government.

However, he said that “UPA partners, in the lust for power, want continuance of the government. Besides, they are fully aware about people’s ire on price rise (if elections were held). Therefore, they are trying to avoid polls”.

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Naidu said that BJP’s Central Election Committee is meeting on June 26, in Delhi and it would finalise party’s strategy for Lok Sabha as also assembly election due in some state later this year.

Referring to media reports with regard to Samajwadi Party (SP) inching towards relationship with Congress party, Naidu said that Left Parties were cautioning SP leaders to keep distance from the Congress as Muslims were opposed to Nuclear deal.

“We strongly condemn this attitude and wanted to ask how merely for the political benefit it could be justified to link Nuclear Deal with religion,” he said.

The BJP leader described Congress-led UPA government’s ambitious Farmers Loan Waiver Scheme as “incomplete, suspended and full of contradictions”.

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He declared that after coming to power at the Centre after the next elections, NDA government would ensure loan waiver up to Rs 50,000 and that too without any discrimination.

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