The BJP is watching with satisfaction the crisis that is sucking the Congress-led UPA as fallout of railway minister Dinesh Trivedi’s political bravado.
The BJP is watching with satisfaction the crisis that is sucking the Congress-led UPA as fallout of railway minister Dinesh Trivedi’s political bravado. They are content to have a ringside view of the Congress staggering and stumbling along a thorny path of its own creation.
“Mamata waala maamla suljha nahin (The Mamata issue has not been resolved),” leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said pointing out that the government was in crisis. “They (the government) don’t have the numbers. They are trying to buy time,” she said referring to prime minister Manmohan Singh’s reply to the motion of thanks to President’s address being put off to Monday.
It is clear that the BJP is not raring for the fall of UPA-II and it would not push for an early election at this moment. There was speculation that Trivedi may have to join Congress and the possibility of him (Trivedi) being taken into the BJP was brushed aside.
The BJP is not keen to push the Congress over the brink over the motion of thanks to President’s address.
BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP M Venkaiah Naidu in an uncharacteristic understatement summed it up: “All is not well. Congress does not know the art of running the coalition.”
“We are ready for an election at any time, including a mid-term election,” Naidu said. Swaraj had also said the party would have no problem going into an election which could possibly be precipitated by a clueless Congress.
Naidu returned to his characteristic hyperbole when he described the Congress’s political incapacity: “What is needed to run a coalition is trust. There is distrust, mistrust, dissensions, divisions, diversions.”
Naidu and other BJP leaders take pride in the fact that Atal Bihari Vajpayee ran a successful coalition government of NDA for six years.
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