SAD decides to vote against UPA govt. on Nuke deal
The Shiromani Akali Dal will vote against the UPA government when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeks a vote of confidence in Parliament on July 22. Parkash Singh Badal said that the party cann’t go along with any ruling dispensation in which the Congress is a constituent or has provided support. While ruling out the possibility of Akali MPs abstaining from voting, he said there was no need to issue a whip as the party stood united on the issue.
He denied that any senior leader had ever favoured going against a decision taken in the NDA, of which the Akali Dal is an important constituent. He said, “We have selected our allies after thorough deliberations & we shall stand only by them. The issue before us is should the UPA government, which is responsible for an unprecedented price rise & more hardship for the common man, a government that has repeatedly discriminated against Punjab, be allowed to function any further”.
Badal further said in his statement that Akali Dal could not vote for the UPA just because it was headed by a Sikh. He said, “Personally, I place Dr. Manmohan Singh in high esteem. He is intelligent, decent, honest & a well-meaning person. But he is in the wrong party”. He said that nobody had forgotten what the Congress had done to Punjab, especially the Sikh community.
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