Is this the way to run a govt? Advani asks

“The UPA government has sealed its own fate. It has written its own epitaph even before its formal exit. Is this the way to run a government?” asks the Opposition Leader in Lok Sabha and the prime ministerial candidate L K Advani.

“This is for the first time in my sixty years of political career that I came across a government which is in a state of paralysis for so long owing to its own internal contradictions. The UPA government is in ICU,” Advani said while addressing a function in Mumbai on Saturday night organised by the Business Standard.

‘The people had never expected to see such a high inflation rate galloping to a 13-year high to 11.05 percent in the reign of a government which has renowned economist and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the veteran Finance Minister P Chidambaram,’ he said while commenting on the inflation.

Although he refused to accept the Indo-US nuclear deal in the present form but said the present stalemate is consequence of ideologically different political combination of two parties-Congress and Left-came closer to form the government on the pretext of 'secular forces.' How can two parties work perfectly together if they do not share any common ground on economic and foreign policies?

The government has now reached at the stage of impasse where it neither can go back nor ahead. If it goes ahead for operationalisation of nuclear deal, the CPI-M led Left will withdraw their support and if it retreats the Prime Minister, who is strong advocacy of nuclear agreement, would lose his credibility and authority.

Meanwhile, the Left and the Congress has approached the UPA's senior most leader Karunanidhi, the DMK Chief and the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, who has respectable position in the eyes of both the Left and the Congress-stood at the two sides of a river on the question of nuclear agreement.

Whereas Advani reached Mumbai to blow on the government, the Left leaders-CPI (M) general secretary Prakash Karat and the CPI national secretary D Raja- headed for Chennai to seek the support of Karunanidhi to play the role of peacemaker between the two parties.

Senior Left leadership have been reported to soften their stand and nodded to discuss on the matter within their parties. Sources said that Left leaders urged the DMK Chief to intervene as they did not want the unity between the UPA and the Left be strangulated. Because lost of unity between the two would mean victory of communal forces.

However, the Karunanidhi's government banking on the support of Congress for its survival in the State how far would help to end the deadlock would be interesting to see.