Playing the secular card, Congress today said the Left parties will have to extend their support to it to form the government if the "danger" of "communal and divisive politics" of BJP is to be averted.
"Everybody understands that if there is a danger it is from BJP due to their communal and divisive politics...If government of 'aam admi' has to be formed in the country, support will have to be extended whether by the Left or some one else," Congress general secretary B K Hariprasad said.
Asked about the possibility of Left supporting the Congress, he said that the Communist parties had supported it even in 2004.
With initial trends giving UPA an edge, Congress sounded confident of forming a government with support of some other parties.
"Trends are quite encouraging and supporting. We are confident that we will get to higher numbers. If at all we fall short, our friends are waiting...There had been moves (to enlist support) here and there," senior party leader Oscar Fernandes said.
Reacting to early trends favouring the UPA, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh said: "Obviously, trend is in our favour. Congress is doing extremely well on the performance of UPA led by Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi."
He said the party has done what it said would do. Singh, the former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, hoped that the party would take its tally past 170.
On BSP, Singh said it has no future at the national level. The Congress leader hoped that the party would do very well in north India as well as in his state.
