Lalu rules out mid-term polls, claims UPA will return to power
Sarnath, Varanasi, Aug 25 (UNI) Ruling out mid-term Lok Sabha poll following differences between Manmohan Singh-led government and Left parties, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad today said the next general election would happen on its stipulated time and the ''same gang,'' will return to power.
''Left or right, no one wants a mid-term election. There will be no mid-term poll due to differences between the Left and the government on the 123 Indo-US nuke deal issue. UPA government will complete its full term and the same gang will return to power after the next Lok Sabha poll which will be held on its stipulated time,'' Mr Prasad told newspersons on the sidelines of the 6th national convention of RJD which began here this morning.
Mr Prasad, who was elected unopposed as the party president for the sixth straight time by the RJD national executive earlier in the day, said ''top UPA leaders have managed to iron out differences with the left and there is no threat now to the Manmohan Singh-led government at the centre.'' In a clear indication towards growing differences within his party, Mr Prasad, while addressing party rank and file said ''there is no place for differences and indiscipline in the party. Unite and fight against the anti-people Nitish Kumar government in Bihar...there is no government in Bihar where children are not only being abducted, but also being killed. Besides, in the JD(U)-BJP ruled state, there is no place for poor and deprived sections of the society.'' The RJD supremo also lamented that excepting Bihar, his party was not able to progress forward in an organised way. ''Go and strengthen organisation to rise to power nationally'', Lalu appealed to party workers amid shouts of 'Desh ka bhaavi PM Lalu' (country's future PM Lalu Prasad).
UNI