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Cong Considering SP, RJD Option

With just 10 seats required to touch the magic figure of 272, the Congress was still undecided on taking the support of SP, which has emerged the single largest party in the Party.

However, the Congress President Sonia Gandhi called RJD chief Lalu Yadav and asked him to attend the Cabinet meeting. Both the Samajwadi Part and the Rashtriya Janata Dal contested the elections alone.

Besides, a short while after SP general secretary Amar Singh offered the party’s “constructive support” to the new United Progressive Alliance government, the Congress responded by saying that it was considering the option.

“The Samajwadi Party had supported us at the time of the trust vote in parliament on the nuclear deal (July 2008). But they fought separately in UP and Bihar. It doesn’t mean that they are away from us and we are away from them,” Congress spokesperson M Veerappa Moily said.

Moily said that internal discussion was ongoing on the SP’s hand of support.

“The discussion in the party is going on to consider the SP’s role in the government, which form and how,” he said.

The Congress spokesman also re-asserted the prime minister’s statement on Saturday that secular forces should join hands.

“We have been inviting all the secular parties to join the government,” he said.

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