Cong tried to disintegrate Jan Morcha alliance: VP

Lucknow, Mar 29 (UNI) Former prime minister V P Singh today alleged that Congress tried to disintegrate the Jan Morcha alliance ahead of assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

Talking to reporters here, he claimed that several Congress leaders were in touch with him to form an alliance. ''But the seats they were ready to part were so less that the alliance I had formed could have disintegrated,'' he said.

To a poser, he claimed that he could not part ways with old friends to make new ones.

He said the time taken by Congress to reach an understanding with him on seat sharing was normal. ''It was a policy decision...it takes time,'' he added.

The former prime minister claimed that his views on Special Ecomomic Zones (SEZs) would have remained unchanged had the alliance with Congress materialised. ''The US and the former Soviet Union had joined hands to defeat Hitler in World War II...at times, such an alliance is required.'' In reply to a question, he admitted that some of the alliance partners of Jan Morcha had parted ways. ''Let them leave if they want to.'' UNI