“In politics there are no permanent enemies and permanent friends. And in many ways, a week in politics is sometimes an unusually long period of time,” Manmohan Singh said on his return from the G20 summit in St. Petersburg.
With no permanent friends or foes in politics, a re-alliance with Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) is always open, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday.
“In politics there are no permanent enemies and permanent friends. And in many ways, a week in politics is sometimes an unusually long period of time,” Manmohan Singh said on his return from the G20 summit in St. Petersburg.
“So I don’t rule out alliances,” he added, terming Banerjee a respectable member of the Congress party at one time and now a leader of the Trinamool Congress.
“We would very much like like-minded, secular-minded persons should work again to give our country’s polity a thrust in favour of secular elements.”
The Trinamool Congress had parted ways with UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government on September 21, 2012 on a spate of policy issues ranging from allowing foreign investment in multi-brand retail, increase in diesel prices and putting a cap on subisidised LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) cylinders.
-IANS
