Wednesday, May 18 2005 14:57 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) President L K Advani today (May 18, 2005) cautioned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that UPA (United Progressive Alliance) Government's dependence on the Left Parties would become a "liability".

"In national interest, I wish to caution Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh that your dependence on Communist support will prove to be a liability for anything good you many wish to do", Advani said addressing the CII's Annual Session and National Conference on achieving 'Inclusive and Double Digit Growth'.

"The first thing India must do to achieve double-digit inclusive growth is to marginalise the ideological and political influence of the Communists, for their policies will neither deliver inclusive growth nor double digit growth," he said.

Advani said the Communists have been fanatically opposed to every piece of economic reform, right from P V Narasimha Rao's time to Vajpayee's tenure and now in Manmohan Singh's time.

"I never cease to be amazed by the hypocrisy of the Indian communists. For them, it is okay if China carries out economic reforms, but India must not. It is okay if China becomes a nuclear weapon nation, but India must not," Advani said.