Assuring that the government will last its full term, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday morning said that it is his job to save the government.
"We still have more than a year and a half before the elections are due. It is my job to save the government and that is why we are talking to the Left parties who are supporting the government from outside," he said as Sitaram Yechuri walked into his room for talks on some crucial aspects of the internal mechanism set up by the government to address the issues raised by them.
"I am the foreign minister and also act as the spokesperson of the government. That is why I read out the statement on the setting up a left-UPA mechanism on August 30," he explained.
Mukherjee said that the demand of the Bhartiya Janata Party for a Joint Parliamentary Committee was not possible.
Talking about their second demand that the government should amend the Constitution and give powers to the Parliament to ratify treaties with other government, he asked whether the Vajpayee government took the House into confidence when he decided to explode nuclear device during his tenure.
"The Constitution does not permit any such thing," Mukherjee said.
