The Samajwadi Party on Saturday came out firmly in support of the Congress-led UPA Government, claiming that it would make any “sacrifice” to keep communal parties out of power.
SP General Secretary Amar Singh said that he did not want the BJP to take advantage of the political crisis over the Indo-US nuclear deal. “(BJP leader) L K Advani is more lethal than Bush. The threat of Bush will come to an end but the threat of Advani is likely to come (after elections in 2009),” Singh said.
“The Left may choose to go with the BJP and make the Government fall but we cannot do such a thing.”
Justifying its support to the Government, Singh said it had to choose between the secular and the non-secular parties. He rejected the charge of his allies in the United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) that the SP was being “opportunistic” in bailing out the Government.
