NDA Govt. will fall soon: Scindia

NEW DELHI, MAY 3. The Congress(I) has said that it would ``not stand aloof'' in the event of the fall of the Vajpayee Government, which it feels ``cannot survive too long'', but the party's role is ``something to be worked out''.

The party did not rule out the possibility of getting help from current adversaries in the Third Front but felt the situation was ``too nebulous and in a flux''.

``We are not in the toppling game. But if this Government collapses due to its internal contradictions which are getting sharper and sharper day by day, the Congress(I) will certainly not stand aloof. I think this Government certainly cannot survive,'' senior party leader, Mr. Madhavrao Scindia, said in an interview today.

In the hour-long interview, he spoke on the party's attitude towards a coalition government at the Centre, maintaining that the Congress ``graph'' would climb after the Assembly elections in five States because the people were realising that it alone had the experience to run the country.

Asked whether he expected equations to change in Parliament after the elections, Mr. Scindia said reports from Assam and Kerala were ``very positive'' and the AIADMK-Congress alliance in Tamil Nadu was making ``good progress''. The Congress-Trinamool Congress tie-up in West Bengal was emerging as a strong rival to the Left parties.

Declining to hazard a guess on how long the NDA Government would last, he said, ``These are issues on which you cannot set a time limit. But I would say this Government cannot survive too long. Let us see what happens.'' In case the Government fell there were possibilities of ``an alternative combination without the BJP or it could be a reshuffle within the NDA or finally it could be back to polls''.

- PTI

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