Hyderabad: Terming the UPA government as ‘lame duck’, BJP on Saturday said that the Congress wanted to go for early polls to cut its losses.
“The Congress-led UPA government has become lame duck and it is on a ventilator with the outside support of Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj party (BSP),” MP and senior party leader M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters here.
“Becoming aware of growing disenchantment among the people and the economic situation which was not going to improve, the Congress wants to go for early polls along with the states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Chhattisgarh (where elections are due by December) to cut its losses and retain some strength,” he said. Naidu alleged that the Congress, which was “notorious for misusing” the constitutional institutions, was once again exposed with the CBI raids on the DMK leader M K Stalin’s house within hours of his party withdrawing support to the UPA.
“Conducting a raid immediately after withdrawing support was nothing but blackmail and this was a message to other allies to understand that a similar fate was awaiting them. (PTI)
