"Today the PMO has become the biggest counter for political bargain and the patent promoter of horse-trading," BJP spokesman Ravishanker Prasad said.
Referring to Manmohan Singh's meeting with Reliance Industries Chief Mukesh Ambani, he said, "in 1979, Morarji Desai lost his government without making any compromise. In 1998, the Vajpayee government lost by one vote, but today the PMO is being forced to become an arbitrator in corporate disputes (for survival)."
Claiming that the fall of the UPA government was ‘imminent’, Prasad said: "the sooner it goes the better."
BJP was for good relations with the US but was against the Indo-US nuclear deal in the present form as it compromised India's nuclear deterrent autonomy, the party spokesman said.
"The deal will shackle India's right to conduct further tests of nuclear tests. It will severely compromise our nuclear deterrent autonomy," he said.