Weekly Buggles

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the first time publicly admitted that he would have resigned had the Indo-US nuclear deal not gone through last year.

The confirmation by Singh himself about what has been speculated in political circles for a long time made it clear that it was on his insistence that Congress president Sonia Gandhi agreed to part ways with the Left parties.

“I was quite clear if the Indo-US nuclear deal had not gone through, I would have resigned,” Singh said in an interaction with women journalists on Friday.

The decision to go ahead with the deal in July last year had turned the Left parties into bitter foes of Singh’s government, which they had supported for more than four years.

The PM also said there was a serious threat to disturb the elections through militant incursions.

“There is no doubt that terrorists have not given up the evil design to destabilise our country to interfere with the poll process,” he said.

Commenting on a wide range of subjects, Singh slammed his main rival for the prime minister’s post, BJP leader L.K. Advani.

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