<b>âAdvani bigger danger than Bushâ</b>
Sandeep Dikshit
Amar Singh says SP is for nuclear deal, but it will not commit itself to an alliance
NEW DELHI: The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Saturday indicated that it would go with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) on the nuclear deal, since fundamentalism was a bigger enemy than imperialism. However, it said it would not commit itself to an alliance.
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Describing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as a bigger danger than the U.S</span>., SP general secretary Amar Singh told newspersons here, âfor us communalism is a bigger danger than imperialism. Advani is a bigger danger than Bush â¦. It [the nuclear deal] is neither a Muslim deal nor a Hindu deal.â
âToday the Left parties, the BSP, the BJP and Indian National Lok Dal leader Om Prakash Chautala may vote together. If our friends from the Left want to defeat the government with the BSP and the BJP, we donât want to say anything. But we canât do this work.â
âLet the confidence motion come and then we will decide,â he observed on being queried about the partyâs stand in case of a trial of strength in Parliament. Asked which side would the party favour â secular or communal â Mr. Singh described both the UPA and the Left as secular.
Maintaining that there had been no talks with the Congress on an alliance, he said, âneither have they asked for our support nor have we committed ours. We are outsiders till now. CPIM general secretary Prakash Karat and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi are insiders. They have formed the government and are running it. There is no divorce as yet. They left have only given a warning. This warning has been going on for a year.â
âThere is no deal with the Congress,â said the SP general secretary, adding that if Ram Vilas Paswan with just three MPs could become a Cabinet Minister, the SP with 39 Lok Sabha MPs could have gone much further. The SP, he said, had never been with the fundamentalists. At the same time, it had never been with the Congress.
Sandeep Dikshit
Amar Singh says SP is for nuclear deal, but it will not commit itself to an alliance
NEW DELHI: The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Saturday indicated that it would go with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) on the nuclear deal, since fundamentalism was a bigger enemy than imperialism. However, it said it would not commit itself to an alliance.
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Describing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as a bigger danger than the U.S</span>., SP general secretary Amar Singh told newspersons here, âfor us communalism is a bigger danger than imperialism. Advani is a bigger danger than Bush â¦. It [the nuclear deal] is neither a Muslim deal nor a Hindu deal.â
âToday the Left parties, the BSP, the BJP and Indian National Lok Dal leader Om Prakash Chautala may vote together. If our friends from the Left want to defeat the government with the BSP and the BJP, we donât want to say anything. But we canât do this work.â
âLet the confidence motion come and then we will decide,â he observed on being queried about the partyâs stand in case of a trial of strength in Parliament. Asked which side would the party favour â secular or communal â Mr. Singh described both the UPA and the Left as secular.
Maintaining that there had been no talks with the Congress on an alliance, he said, âneither have they asked for our support nor have we committed ours. We are outsiders till now. CPIM general secretary Prakash Karat and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi are insiders. They have formed the government and are running it. There is no divorce as yet. They left have only given a warning. This warning has been going on for a year.â
âThere is no deal with the Congress,â said the SP general secretary, adding that if Ram Vilas Paswan with just three MPs could become a Cabinet Minister, the SP with 39 Lok Sabha MPs could have gone much further. The SP, he said, had never been with the fundamentalists. At the same time, it had never been with the Congress.