Congress May Call For Mid Term Poll

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Not sure if we need a separate thread. Maybe this can be merged with "elections is coming" thread ???

http://www.indiareacts.com/nati2.asp?recno=3229

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Congress talks with Jayalalithaa rocky

22 March 2005: Following M.Karunanidhi’s refusal to share power in Tamil Nadu, the Congress has opened negotiations with J.Jayalalithaa, but she has demanded that the UPA sever links with the DMK in the Centre.

Already daily threatened by Laloo Prasad Yadav for the imposed President’s rule in Bihar, sources said that Congress president Sonia Gandhi does not want to take any new gamble in Tamil Nadu, because Karunanidhi is already in talks with the Bihar strongman to revive the Third Front with Sharad Pawar and Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Sources said that despite an outward show of hostility, Mulayam is coaxing Laloo to quit the UPA for a Third Front government, the idea being that if the DMK, Sharad Pawar’s NCP, Samajwadi Party and RJD give notice of opting out, the Left would be forced to join them, therefore automatically collapsing the arrangement in the Centre.

The anti-Congress parties in the UPA feel that the Congress will not abandon attempts to grow in North India and in other states of its allies, and this growth can only be at their cost, which cannot be tolerated.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->