UNPA practical ally of BJP: Cong

The Congress on Thursday sought to drive a wedge between the Left parties and the UNPA by branding the grouping of regional parties as "practical allies" of the BJP and bluntly asking whether they would be with it or side the saffron party in future.

The party also targetted Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh for attacking Congress leader Veerappa Moily and said there was nothing wrong in Moily's statement that the nation was yet to hear the view on nuclear deal from those who have experience about land deals.

"The UNPA (constituents) say that they are the natural allies of the Left, but the experience of the last five years is that they are the practical allies of the BJP," Congress spokesman Mohan Prakash told reporters in New Delhi.