New Delhi: Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP)on Monday said the strained relations between Congress and its ally TMC had reached a breaking point and the former had already begun looking towards Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh for an alliance in the near future.
Speaking at a party programme in New Delhi, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said, "Some people felt that TMC opposed the UPA government on issues of FDI, Pension Bill, Lokpal and other issues to gain popularity. But when the name of a bhawan (building), named after Indira Gandhi, is changed it cannot be done to get any popularity for TMC." "This is the beginning of the end of a relationship," he added.
Charging that now the UPA allies want to distance themselves from a government which is losing its popularity, the BJP leader insisted that TMC had opposed the government openly in Parliament on the crucial Lokpal Bill and moved amendments for removal of the whole chapter on Lokayukta.
He maintained that in the present scenario where the ties with TMC have reached breaking point, the Congress has started desperately looking for new allies to save its government at the Centre. "Naturally the government will not like to lose power if allies leave. It will get into the exercise of finding new allies. In UP, Congress has gone into a search for a new ally. It is looking into the possibility of who between SP and BSP can be its ally," Jaitley said.
Jaitley alleged that when the government was stuck for numbers in the Lok Sabha on the Lokpal Bill, it asked these two friendly parties- "which have always bailed it out" - to stage a walkout.
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