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Samajwadi party to stay out of government
Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh has said he was not interested in joining the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) but maintained that without the support of his party the Congress "has no future in Uttar Pradesh".
- IANS
- Published: 00:02 August 10, 2008
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh has said he was not interested in joining the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) but maintained that without the support of his party the Congress "has no future in Uttar Pradesh".
"I don't want to join the government. But workers [of Samajwadi Party] think we will benefit [if I join the government]," the Rajya Sabha MP told NDTV. "I just do not want to," he said.
He said he would have to "accept the leadership of Congress under Soniaji and the administrative leadership of Manmohan Singh whether I remain inside or outside the Cabinet". But added: "Without our party, Congress has no future in Uttar Pradesh."
On poll alliance with the Congress in Uttar Pradesh ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, he said: "I am not keen. I am not dying for it. But I am not disinterested either. The local Congress unit is interested [in a pre-poll alliance]."
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