Talk of mid-term polls scare mongering: Advani

NEW DELHI - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani said Tuesday that any talk of mid-term polls following the parliamentary logjam was “scare-mongering”.

“It is only scare-mongering. To scare the MPs and to break the opposition unity that has come about,” Advani told reporters at a National Democratic Alliance press conference.

“The mid-term talks have come officially from ministers, whom I do not want to mention, and they know that a parliament was elected one-and-a-half years back. Why would an average member of parliament elected for five years like to curtail his own tenure,” he asked.

Advani said the NDA had not brought a no-confidence motion against the government as other non-NDA opposition members may not have supported it.

The winter session of parliament, that ended Monday, was washed out with barely any work conducted as the opposition stalled both houses daily over its demand for a joint parliamentary committee probe into the 2G spectrum scam.