Click to play videoNew Delhi: Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh says the problem in alliance talks with the Congress is those seats which his party won in the last Lok Sabha elections.
In an interview with CNN-IBN, Amar Singh also commented on his meeting with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar and the Maratha strongman's prime ministerial ambitions.
On Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance
"The seats which are being demanded by them are our sitting seats and in no alliance sitting seats are ever conceded. Even Congress will not do that for any of its alliance partners including NCP. So the stalemate is actually over there. It is not on policies. It is not on any major issues," said Amar Singh.
Sharad Pawar as prime minister
"If destiny provides any opportunity to Sharad Pawar we are not going to object to that. If any such opportunity comes in the way of Mulayam Singh, Sharad Pawar will not have any objection to that," said Singh.
On Third Front
"We are not part of Congress and under the circumstances and politically we are compelled to do business with Congress. We will have to have a group within the secular group to deal with the Congress in totality," he said.
Congress spokesperson Digvijay Singh sought to downplay disagreements over seat sharing and said Congress-Samajwadi Party alliance is more important.
"We are open to alliance. Discussions on number of seats that we fight is not important. How many seats we win is more impportant. We should be pragmatic and look afresh. Amar Singh and Mulayaman Singh should sit wth us and talk," said Digvijay Singh.
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