The Congress is a "deceitful" party and allying with it invite "destruction", Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said today amid reports that the Congress was planning to have a tie-up with the BSP and the SP for the upcoming assembly polls.
"I am not worried about the coalitions but for those who ally with the Congress," Chouhan told reporters.
"The Congress is a 'dhokhebaj' (deceitful) party. Those who had formed an alliance with the Congress had invited destruction," he said in Maihar in Satna district, around 450 kms from Bhopal, from where he launched the second leg of his 'Jan Ashirwad Yatra'.
Chouhan was responding to a query on the Congress' efforts to stitch an alliance with the parties like the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP) for the assembly elections due later this year.
"You must remember that the Congress had pulled down the Chaudhary Charan Singh government within four months and humiliated him. The Congress did the same with I K Gujral and H D Deve Gowda (former prime ministers)," he said.
Chaudhary Charan Singh had served as the fifth Prime Minister of the country from July 28, 1979 until January 14, 1980.
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Janata Dal leader Deve Gowda had served as PM from June 1, 1996 to April 21, 1997, succeeded by I K Gujral whose Janata Dal (United Front) government too lasted for barely an year.
Chouhan also took a dig at the recent emotional outburst of Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy whose party JD(S) is an ally of the Congress in the southern state.
"Recently, HD Kumaraswamy wept saying he was swallowing poison (like Lord Shiva while running the coalition government). Those having an alliance with the Congress invite their doom," Chouhan said.
Madhya Pradesh Congress president Kamal Nath has announced that his party was ready to align with like-minded parties, especially the BSP, for the polls to unseat the BJP.
He had met BSP supremo Mayawati in Delhi recently.
Samajwadi Party national president and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav is arriving in Bhopal tomorrow to hold a meeting with the party leaders.
It is likely that he will hold a meeting with Nath during his stay in the state capital
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