NCP's decision will not affect UPA Govt: Cong

New Delhi, June 6 (UNI) The Congress today expressed the hope that the decision of its ally Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to support the candidature of industrialist Rahul Bajaj, an independent candidate for Rajya Sabha by election, would not embitter the relations between the two parties.

''There is no question of the relations being spoiled due to the episode,'' AICC Treasurer Moti Lal Vora said, adding that the differences that have cropped up would be resolved.

The issue would be discussed by the party in detail, Mr Vora said and added that it would have no impact on the running of coalition government.

He pointed out that his party had feilded his own candidate for the election. It was for the NCP to consider why it was siding with a communal party like the BJP,in supporting an independe nt canmdidate, he added.

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