The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today said early elections to the Lok Sabha were inevitable after the DMK withdrew its support to the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre.
The UPA government had been in the ICU after the DMK’s exit, SAD chief and Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal said at a function in Ludhiana.
“With the DMK withdrawing support to the UPA and Mulayam Singh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party breathing down its neck, early polls to the Lok Sabha are inevitable,” he said.
“The government is in ICU and day-to-day supply of oxygen cylinders cannot keep this brain dead government alive for long,” Badal said, according to an official release here.
“SAD and its alliance partner BJP are fully prepared for early Lok Sabha elections and have started the exercise of energising their cadres for the coming electoral challenge,” he said.
The DMK today withdrew its support to the UPA government and pulled out its five ministers over the issue of alleged human rights violations against Tamils in Sri Lanka.
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