Nuke deal stalemate a ploy to divert attention from price rise

Ranchi, June 29 (PTI) The stalemate between the Congress
and the Left over signing of the nuclear deal with the US
seemed to be a ploy to cover up the Centre's inability to
control price rise, BJP president Rajnath Singh said today.
"Curbing price rise looks beyond the UPA's control now. At
the same time neither the Congress and its allies nor the Left
parties are ready for elections. So the stalemate on the
nuclear-deal has suddenly erupted," Singh told a press
conference here.
He alleged that the present economic condition of the
nation was due to the UPA government's wrong policies during
the last four and a half years.
"That is why the UPA and its allies have hatched a
conspiracy to change the agenda of the political debate which
should have focussed on price rise", Singh said demanding
immediate rolling up the curtains on the fate of the Indo-US
nuclear-deal.
Claiming that the results of the recent assembly elections
held in various states was a reflection of the party's
popularity, he said the BJP was the "first choice" of the
people.
"The Atal Behari Vajpayee-led NDA government had faced
Kargil war and sanctions against the country following the
nuclear tests. Still our government had controlled prices
deftly because of the NDA's constructive policies," Singh
claimed here.