IANS

New Delhi, Oct 9: Terming the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) as 'Ulta Pulta Alliance' or topsy-turvy alliance, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday asked it to "go and spare India".

"The nation is tired and indeed fatigued by the farce, which goes in the name of UPA. It is now finally evident that an alliance of mutually hostile and antagonistic elements like the Congress and the Left based solely upon their common hatred against the BJP is inherently unstable," party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters here.

He was referring to the serious differences between the UPA and Left parties that support it over the India-US civil nuclear deal.

The Left has threatened to withdraw support to the government if it went ahead with the deal.

Prasad said these two "fractious, quarrelsome" partners had brought a paralysis in governance and vital decision-making.

"Be it the issue of food security, compelling matters of national security or pressing problems of aam adami (common man) whose interest the UPA deceptively claimed to represent, all have been relegated to the background," he said.

The BJP said major decisions on the economic front too were put in the cold storage.

Terming the UPA-Left spat as political brinkmanship at its worst, Prasad said, "One is surprised as to how parties of the Left failed to note that running a coalition government is not in the DNA of the Congress. The Congress has a dominant, arrogant character fuelled by the conviction that it has monopoly to decide as to what is in India's interest."

Attacking Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the BJP leader said that her statement in Haryana Sunday, that anyone opposing the India-US nuclear deal was opposing the nation's progress, reminded many of the slogans of the Emergency Rule of the 1970s that the "history of the Congress is the history of India" and "Indira is India".

"Let Mrs Gandhi note that the India of 2007 is not an India of 1975. The roots of democracy are much stronger in India."

Claiming that the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) alone can give a forward-looking, development-oriented and stable coalition, Prasad stated, "A nation of more than a billion people is in a state of drift where governance is a casualty. Perhaps, it is time to say: for god's sake UPA please go and spare India."