Karat flip-flop due to fear of elections: BJP

NEW DELHI: Taking a dig at CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat for his "flip-flop" on the Indo-US nuclear deal, BJP said on Saturday that the Marxist party was "afraid" of facing elections and will allow the passage of the accord.
    
"Karat and the CPI(M) have no courage to face elections. They are afraid," BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said, ridiculing the CPI(M) General Secretary for denying that he had threatened polls on the deal.
    
"The CPI(M) will somehow find a way out to allow the nuclear deal, which compromises India's interests, to go through because it is afraid of the return of BJP and the NDA," he said, adding "Prakash Karat has set a record on
flip-flop".
    
"The CPI(M) was afraid of elections because we all know its situation in Kerala and West Bengal," he added.
    
The CPI(M) General Secretary earlier in the day denied comments attributed to him in an interview by a leading English magazine in which he had threatened elections on the nuclear deal issue.