Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani today said the country is moving towards an early general elections due to the emergence of destabilizing forces within the Congress led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.
Bhopal, Sept 23 : Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani today said the country is moving towards an early general elections due to the emergence of "destabilizing forces" within the Congress led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.
"Friends, India is at a crossroads. However, no astrologer is needed to predict the direction in which it is set to move. The direction is: early Lok Sabha elections. How early, is now the only question that remains unanswered," he said in his speech at the party's national executive meet, which concludes today.
He said that the answer to that question depends on how the Congress proposes to deal with two destabilizing forces that have emerged within the ruling coalition.
"The first is the group of four Left parties, whose outside support is oxygen for the survival of the government. The second is the DMK, whose leader has conducted himself in so unbecoming a manner in the Ram Sethu matter that it has truly no parallel in the history of Indian democracy," Advani said.
Pointing out that sometimes a week is too long a period in politics, he said if we see the political developments in the past few weeks, their combined effect has so completely debilitated the government that "it is accurate to say that there is no functioning government at present in Delhi."
"The entire government machinery is in a state of paralysis due to uncertainty created by the UPA self-destabilisation," he added.
He went on to say that the government became unstable because of the inflexible, indefensible and undemocratic stand taken by the Congress with regard to the Indo-US nuclear cooperation deal.
Advani claimed that the Congress leadership wants to go ahead with the deal since it does not believe in democracy and has no commitment to coalition dharma either.
"It knows that the government could fall because of its stand-off with the Left parties. It is sticking to its stand on the nuclear deal in spite of this knowledge, in the hope that it would emerge victorious with a larger strength in the Lok Sabha," he said.
Comparing the Congress led UPA Government with the previous Atal Bihari Vajpayee led the NDA rule, he said the Congress has never believed in the needs of the coalition era.
"It still believes that it alone has the right to rule the country. Which is why, it ran the UPA government as if it was its own government, even though it had won less than 150 seats in the Lok Sabha," Advani said.
ANI