Though the SP is now in two minds on the efficacy of the nuclear deal, party general secretary Amar Singh said the nuclear deal could not be exactly called “anti-Muslim”. 

“US President George Bush is not the real enemy of Muslims, it is L K Advani, Narendra Modi and Mayawati who are the biggest enemies and they are here to stay unlike Bush,” said Singh, while speaking to mediapersons after the party executive meet.

Singh said that the finer points of the deal were explained to them by former President A P J Abdul Kalam “whose knowledge and integrity cannot be challenged”. Staying on the deal and the support to the UPA, Singh revealed that INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala had backed out at the last time “Chautala felt that we should not support the deal since the Congress will get the credit,” Singh said. 

Singh termed the party’s support to the UPA as “a wonderful convergence of its political interest in the state with that of the national one.” He said while the BSP and BJP were the arch rivals of the Congress at the Centre, they opposed the SP in the state.

The SP demanded that the Centre should constitute a three-member judicial inquiry committee comprising Supreme Court judges to probe into the corrupt practices of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government in the state.

Singh lambasted Chief Minister Mayawati for cajoling all the mafia politicians for voting against the UPA during the trust vote. “Mukhtar Ansari, Atiq Ahmed,

Mitrasen, Anandsen and D P Yadav who used to be criminals for Mayawati when

they were with Mulayam, have suddenly become saints. The BSP had used these people as an agenda against the SP,” Singh said.

Pointing out at the past terror attacks that took place during the NDA regime, Singh said that “it is important to probe as to why the recent attacks are taking place in the BJP-ruled states only.”

On the issue of joining the UPA government, Singh said, “So far this is not a part of our agenda. This issue involves Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi and Mulayam Singh. They are the right ones to comment on it.”