Bhopal, Jan 5 (IANS) The Manmohan Singh government will last its full term and there is no chance of an early election, Union Minister for Chemical and Fertilisers Ram Vilas Paswan said here Saturday.
Paswan who is in the city to participate in a convention of his Lok Janshakti Party, told reporters that no party, including the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), wanted mid-term polls and “the Left parties supporting the Congress-lead United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government from outside have never threatened to pull it down”.
“Supporting (the government) from outside doesn’t means that there would be no differences of opinion. Since the Left has its own view on the (India-US) nuclear deal, they have full right to assert their view and even criticise the government. Supporting the partners’ criticism, in any case, doesn’t mean that there is a threat to the government,” he asserted.
“On the other hand, we (in the government) have also agreed to their suggestions and constituted a committee to decide on the matter. So there is no question of not supporting the government.”
On the defeat of the Congress and allies in the Gujarat assembly polls last month, he said it could be due to the Congress’ failure in projecting any leader of Narendra Modi’s stature as its chief ministerial candidate.
Describing the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) as a party of Manuwadis and capitalists now, he said it should better be called Brahmin Samaj Party adding that atrocities against Dalits had increased in Uttar Pradesh ever since Mayawati assumed power in May 2007.
“This was the reason that it couldn’t do anything in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh and was equally becoming unpopular in Uttar Pradesh which is evident from the recent Lok Sabha by-poll in Ballia, where the BSP candidate lost badly.”
Paswan hoped that his party would be able to establish itself in Madhya Pradesh soon. “My party will contest the coming state assembly polls on its own,” he said.