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“Only NDA can provide stable government”

BHOPAL: Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh said here on Monday that it was now established that only the National Democratic Alliance led by his party could give a stable government at the Centre.

Mr. Singh was addressing journalists at the State BJP headquarters after addressing a Bharatiya Janata Yuva rally in the State capital. The rally marked the end of a “yatra” (journey) across the State, which was led by State BJYM president Vishwas Sarang.

The BJP president told journalists that the BJP always knew that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance was an “opportunistic alliance” and its adverse consequences were now before the nation.

For four years, the UPA remained in the shackles of the Left and as a consequence the country suffered on the economic front, he said adding it was a paradox that the Congress was now trying to prolong its rule by taking the support of the Samajwadi Party. The new alliance would be “worse than UPA’s alliance with the Left,” Mr. Singh said.

On the vote of confidence in Parliament, Mr. Singh said the NDA would try to see that the UPA gets defeated “but without using unfair means like the Congress.” The BJP would engage MPs in a discussion over the adverse impact and tell them how the country’s nuclear capability would be compromised if the UPA government was allowed to go ahead with the nuclear deal, he said.

Governance would be a casualty even if the UPA managed to stay in power, Mr. Singh said demanding Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s resignation and a fresh mandate in national interest.

The BJP president said majority of the people wanted senior BJP leader L.K. Advani as the Prime Minister and expressed the confidence that the UPA would lose the vote of confidence.

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