UPA enters fifth year this week

Sun, May 18 12:59 PM

Sunil Gatade New Delhi, May 18 (PTI) As the country enters the election year this week, inflation and Indo-US nuclear deal remain the key concerns of the Manmohan Singh Government caught in the web of coalition politics. The next Lok Sabha elections will be tough if the Government failed to rein in inflation, warn allies and partners who feel that rising prices could be the "death warrant".

As the government headed by the economist-turned- politician braces for the challenges ahead, Congress is saying that coalition has never been an option, but a compulsion for the party. "Coalition is never an option.

Coalition is compulsion not only for Congress but for everybody," says party General Secretary Janardhan Dwivedi. Vijay Krishna, General Secretary of the RJD, says that the UPA has done a lot of remarkable work including farm loan waiver but "if the dangerous trend of rising prices is not stopped, it will be a death warrant for the UPA".

Krishna dubs P Chidambaram as an "unsuccessful" Finance Minister and wants the Prime Minister to go in for a new minister to manage the financial affairs of the country. PTI.

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