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UNPA will not disintegrate: Amar Singh

Vidya Subrahmaniam

Amar Singh

New Delhi: The Samajwadi Party is ideologically close to the Congress but their leaderships are mutually antagonistic.

The SP is ideologically opposed to the Bharatiya Janata Party but there is “hardly any personal animosity between their leaders,” SP general secretary Amar Singh told The Hindu here on Friday.

Contradictory

Mr. Singh described Indian politics as “very contradictory and paradoxical.” The SP and the Congress had much in common but their relationship was marred by “petty and personal prejudices.”

The Congress leaders were arrogant and behaved as if they were born to rule the world, he said.

The SP leader blamed the Congress for the crisis on the nuclear deal with the United States: “They failed to understand that the Left would never compromise on secularism and anti-imperialism.”

Mr. Singh said he did not think the United National Progressive Alliance would disintegrate.

The SP had two immediate objectives: “I would not like to see the disintegration of the UNPA and I would like to keep the support of the Left.”

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