New Delhi, July 24 (ANI): The Samajwadi Party chose to be diplomatic about joining the UPA Government after helping it to win the confidence motion in the Parliament.
SP general secretary Amar Singh said he is not the right person to answer the question whether the party would participate in the government.
"It is not possible to answer this question now but we are not interested in joining the government," he added.
On being asked about reports claiming that the SP had demanded nine cabinet posts during Wednesday's meeting with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Singh said: "We had an informal meeting where we exchanged greetings with each other. We have not discussed anything with her regarding any demand from our side."
Commenting on Samajwadi Party MP Rewati Raman Singh's claim that he had asked BJP MP Ashok Argal to meet Amar Singh, the party general secretary said people are free to meet anyone they like.
"People are free to meet, but it is the context in which they do that is important. I don't remember meeting anybody. My house has been open to all, especially in the past one month when it has been under total media scrutiny," Singh said.
Manmohan should have been "bonded slave" of CMP not CPM: Yechury
In the meantime, CPI (M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury has said that it was strange that after four years of Left support, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has alleged that they wanted him to behave like a "bonded slave".
"The Prime Minister has accused the Left parties as wanting to treat him as a bonded slave. Strange that it took him over four years of being the PM on the strength of the support of the Left parties to hurl such accusations," Yechury said in an editorial in the forthcoming issue of People Democracy.
He said that the Prime Minister and the UPA Government should have been a "bonded slave" to the Common Minimum Programme and "not to anybody".
Yechury said Singh has charged the Left parties with not allowing him to complete all the negotiations on the ground that he would come back to Parliament before finally operationalising the Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
"The Left parties could not agree with this proposal for the obvious reason that once the deal is approved by the US Congress, the Indian Parliament would find itself in a completely untenable situation to strike down the deal," he added.
Once the safeguards agreement is approved by the IAEA Board of Governors, then the deal is on an auto-pilot course of implementation, Yechury further said.
Asserting that the government had no moral authority to carry forward the deal, the CPM leader said "a rigged majority in the Lok Sabha through brazen horse-trading can, in no way, be considered an endorsement for the nuclear deal." (ANI)
