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Stability plank demolished: BJP

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NEW DELHI: The Congress “stability plank” has been demolished by the “game of brinkmanship” played by the Left parties and the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party said here on Tuesday.

It was time for the United Progressive Alliance Government to “go” and spare the country the ordeal of being led by a ‘totally paralysed” ruling establishment, party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said.

He criticised Congress president Sonia Gandhi for her remarks at a rally in Haryana on Sunday that those against the nuclear deal were enemies of progress and development.

Mr. Prasad said the Congress was “arrogant” and thought it had the monopoly to decide what was in the best interests of the country. It was the same “arrogance” displayed by a former Congress president when he said “India is Indira and Indira is India,” he alleged. The people were now “tired” of the exchange of words between the Congress and the Left parties.

“It was an opportunistic alliance with anti-BJPism as its sole binding element, and it was bound to collapse,” he said.

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