BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday said his party’s coalition with the ruling JD(U) is intact and blamed the Centre’s foreign policy for not taking any concrete steps in the Sarabjit Singh issue.

The deputy Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha said: “The attack on the Indian prisoner inside a Pakistani jail reflects the failure of Indian foreign policy. Sarabjit’s family members and the intelligence agencies had intimated the central government that the prisoner might be attacked after the hanging of Kasab but the external affairs ministry kept mum on the issue.”

Prasad also said the intrusion into Indian territory by Chinese forces indicated a weak foreign policy of the Union government.

“The attack on Sarabjit is a dubious attempt by the Pakistan government to divert the attention of Indian government from the Chinese intrusion,” he added.

He also mentioned that the central government’s weak foreign policy could be gauged by the way it had handled the issue of Pakistani soldiers mutilating and beheading two Indian army personnel in January.

The senior leader, however, said his party was not very optimistic about the outcome of the Karnataka polls but expressed hope that the election result would not have any impact on the anti-UPA undercurrent in the country.”

The BJP leader from Bihar also came down heavily on the Congress for the recent attack on BJP patriarch and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Prasad said: “The Congress has tried to defame Vajpayee in the 2G scam. Our party will launch a countrywide agitation on May 4 and 5 against the UPA government.”

He also attacked Manmohan Singh for the coal block allocation issue saying the Prime Minister should resign as the majority of the scams occurred when he had the coal ministry.

Prasad said: “The Manmohan Singh government is the most corrupt one since Independence and they know their end is near.”