New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday did not rule out the possibility of the party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) forming the next government with the support of the Left parties, saying "everything is possible".
"I am not an astrologer, I cannot predict what is going to happen. In the realm of politics everything is possible," Mukherjee told reporters here in response to questions about the Congress' relations with the Left.
The External Affairs Minister was speaking after the release of a Congress party document titled 30 years of Left front rule in West Bengal: A development report card.
Mukherjee said the Congress did not have any (pre-poll) truck with the Communist Party of India-Marxist in the past but added it had a tie-up with small Left parties in the past elections.
Asked about the newly-created Third Front stewarded by the Left parties, Mukherjee said: "My conviction is that having limited number of seats and very little presence at the national level; and being unable to project a prime ministerial candidate, they don't have national impact."
He added: "They are like six characters in a play in search of one playwright."
Pranab Mukherjee also denied all reports of the disintegration of the UPA..
Reacting to reports of differences emerging between the congress and allies like the NCP, RJD, LJP, he said these were all regional parties who had a presence in certain states and hence there could be no adjustments with them at a national level.
"UPA is not a political party therefore there is no question with having adjustments at national levels. How can there be a national alliance then?" he asked.
He also hit out at the BJP for making tall promises in its manifesto which he said the party will not be able to meet.
"There is a difference between performance and commitment. Today they (BJP) are committing giving rice at Rs 2 per kg. The same commitment was made in Karnataka, but two budgets have come in that state and nowhere can we find this allocated in the budgets," he stated.
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