There is no clarity at both UPA and NDA levels regarding advance polls

Janata Dal (United) of Sharad Yadav and Nitishkumar says it won't gravitate away from the BJP-led NDA. It has no reason to break up the firm alliance.

It has only added a rider, there should be a secular-looking, all-embracing Prime Minister.

Nitishkumar has observed that there should be an over-arching personality like the former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to be the new PM.


At some other juncture, he had reportedly said L.K.Advani of Babri Masjid demolition- fame was acceptable as PM.

Still, there is no walking off from the NDA now.

On the other extreme, Sharad Pawar, veteran leader of NCP, has observed UPA alliance is weakening. There could be polls anytime.

More than that, he has called for making plans and preparations for next Lok Sabha polls.

These days Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has been keeping quiet. There may not be any chance of his withdrawing support now, even as he had cautioned his party people earlier that there could be polls in 2013, advanced from 2014.

Anyhow, Defence Minister A.K.Antony has been reiterating that there would not be advance elections.

Lately, an allegation has come up regarding some fiddling at the PMO regarding CBI report on coalgate scam.

This would be more than enough for the Opposition to rattle the ruling dispensation when Parliament reconvenes.

Both ways, at the UPA level as well as NDA level, there appears to be no clarlity.