Participating in the debate on the trust motion moved by Singh in the Lok Sabha, the BJP veteran remarked: “The first question everyone asks is whether he is going to survive or not. I have never seen a government paralysed for so long with nothing else but the deal.”

Leading a scathing attack on the PM, Advani said he don’t  know whether the government will survive or not, but added that he was more interested in defeating the government than in destabilising it.

He said the people would decide in the next elections even if the government survives on Tuesday. The entire trust motion was its own making, the Opposition Leader charged the UPA and added that it was started by the prime minister himself by throwing a challenge to the Left parties which were supporting from outside.

Why the rush?

Noting that the Indo-US nuclear deal has become an agreement between two individuals making India “subservient” and a “junior partner”, he asked where was the need to rush the deal to the IAEA when Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee had assured the Left that it would be sent only after the government wins the trust vote.

“If the government was so serious about the (nuclear) deal, why it was not mentioned in the Common Minimum Programme or even in the Congress manifesto. It is a kind of an agreement between two individuals and one happens to be the Prime Minister,” the BJP leader said.

Attacking the government for speaking in “different voices”, Advani said the IAEA draft text was described as “privileged” and “classified” but it was circulated to IAEA members first.

“If the people vote the NDA back to power, we will renegotiate the deal to make it equal and ensure that there are no constraints on our strategic autonomy,” the BJP leader said.