Click to play videoNew Delhi: SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav is giving ample indications that his political compulsions in UP might force him to stitch a fresh alliance that completely changes the political equations at the national level.
On a platform to mark 30 years of Emergency, names of the then PM Indira Gandhi and the Congress party were both conspicuously missing in the former chief minister’s address. And a day later in Lucknow, Mulayam blamed the UP Chief Minister Mayawati for everything including the current inflation.
“We have to show who we are really against,” Mulayam said.
If the Left pulls out of the Government over the Indo-US nuclear deal then Mulayam's 39 Lok Sabha MPs will bring UPA with 225 seats closer to the half way mark. Also, smaller parties like the RLD, JDS and Trinamool could see the Government through in the lower house.
Meanwhile, Congress is sending enough feelers that it is willing to do business with everyone including Mulayam on the deal. For the Congress winning Mulayam over is like winning the battle for survival even after the Left is gone.
“We hope that discussions with all the parties concerned will help us arrive at a solution. I am aware of time constraints but concerns expressed in different quarters have to be addressed,” External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said.
But the realignment of forces is also fraught with political risk – it could damage Mulayam's minority votebank and his long-standing ties with the Left. This holds especially true when the other UNPA partners like the TDP and the AGP, whose main political rival in their respective state is the Congress, have decided to oppose the nuclear deal.
TDP Spokesperson Maisura Reddy told CNN-IBN, “We will oppose the deal come what may.”
So when the UNPA meets on July 3 more than the nuclear deal, political compulsions of the alliance partners will weigh heavily on the path they take.
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