Congress May Call For Mid Term Poll

ramana · 02-13-2006, 11:12 AM

From Deccan.com, 12 Feb., 2006
QUOTEEfforts are on to topple Manmohan
By Harish Gupta

Serious efforts are being made to get rid of the Manmohan Singh government. While the Left is keen to escalate pressure on the government, the Samajwadi Party is busy forging new alliances. It has roped in the TDÂ and is wooing others. The idea is to tell the Congress that if you have 146 MPs in the Lok Sabha, the Third Front partners have 154.

Simultaneously, the RSS journal Organiser is floating a new theory, gladdening Samajwadi hearts. Organiser advocates a new relationship with Mulayam Singh Yadav, and also criticises L.K. Advani for breaking ties with INLD chief O.P. Chautala and others. Many in the RSS and the BJP feel that a Karnataka-type arrangement should be executed in Delhi as well, even if that means BJP conceding its claim to the Prime Ministerâs post and agreeing to play second fiddle.

And though the Left will not be a part of the proposed Third Front, Mulayam Singh Yadav (SP), Sharad Pawar (NCP), Karunanidhi (DMK), Ram Vilas Paswan (LJP), TDP, TRS, NC, JMM, AGP, etc., will join it. Mulayam Singh is ready to concede the post of Prime Minister to H.D. Deve Gowda, or someone acceptable to the BJP leadership. Second-rung leaders of the BJP are elated over the prospect of a bloodless coup in the Budget Session itself. They are also accusing Advani of breaking ties with the DMK, INLD and AGP. The nitty-gritties of these twin formations are being worked out. The recess period during the Parliament session will be crucial for this.

What astrologers say

Almost all astrologers have predicted the fall of the Manmohan Singh government before September this year. They are, however, divided over the post-fall predictions, with one section saying that Sonia Gandhi will continue to rule with a new PM, and others predicting a mid-term poll or new anti-Congress government. While the political affiliations of some astrologers are too well-known, it is rather strange that astrologers of all hues are unanimous about Manmohanâs exit.

Chawlaâs Jaitley friend
BJP leader Arun Jaitley declared that he would file a chargesheet against election commissioner Navin Chawla for his acts of omission and commission. Chief election commissioner B.B. Tandon has stated that he would enquire into the charges only after receiving the charge-sheet. But how many know that Chawla, a Sonia Gandhi loyalist, took the help of the same Arun Jaitley in curtailing the tenure of his posting at Pondicherry?

Chawla, like any other bureaucrat, was supposed to serve outside Delhi for three years. But he was not too keen to go and was stalling the move. Finally, he was sent. But he roped in Arun Jaitley who took up his cause with another Sonia baiter, Advani. So Chawlaâs tenure was for just seven months and he was on leave most of the time. The story does not end here.

After that he got a good posting and the husband-wife team went to thank Jaitley. AndÂ who sanctioned Chawlaâs trust? B.B. Tandon himself who was secretary, personnel at the time. The same Tandon is now CEC. How can Tandon have an enquiry against Chawla? And what is the charge? Chawla does not seem to have done anything wrong after becoming election commissioner.

Harish Gupta is Director, News and Current Affairs, Janmat TV

02-13-2006, 09:36 PM

I doubt that this wil happen if the LEFT has any control over the situation. They are so paranoid and so anti-national that they will even fight for foreign rule rather than let a patriotic Indian rule India.

The only problem is that most other parties are slowly seeing CON woman's gameplan. First, make the ploicies so communal even if it destroys army or ASSAM. First, make MUSLIMS fear and come back to CONgress party as a unit and then destroy MULYAMS and LALOOS. Then make the brainless price Rahul as PM. SP/BSP/TMC can ignore this only at their peril.

03-12-2006, 03:48 AM

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NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday discussed the apprehension of communal tension following BJP's plan to take out yatras to protest against the Varanasi terror attack.

It also discussed the Samajwadi Party's support for Muslim protests over foreign policy issues, but refrained from attacking UP cm Mulayam Singh Yadav.

The Congress reluctance to go after SP stood in contrast to the confrontation between the two parties and was in line with the pattern of "secular" consolidation in the face of BJP's Hindutva offensive.

A meeting of the Congress Working Committee saw participants attack BJP for seeking to "communalise" the attack as well as the role of SP in stoking militant Muslim mobilisation on Indo-US nuclear deal and anti-Iran vote at IAEA.

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07-07-2006, 11:22 PM

Current situation may force midterm election. All tiny miny parties are extracting maximum blood from UPA and Country.
UPA will try best to avoid mid-term in Nov-Dec 2006 along with UP, Punjab, Uttranchal state election.

07-08-2006, 11:24 PM

'India unsafe in the hands of UPA govt' QUOTE"It is high time for mid-term polls. Elections may be declared any time as this government has failed on every front," he said.
......
"They support the government in parliament and protest on roads. In the interest of Justice, they must withdraw support to the government and give a chance to people to choose a government of their choice," he said.

Lashing out at the Manmohan Singh government, the BJP chief said, "neither is the external security satisfactory nor the internal situation any better. The government has failed on each and every stage of governance." 

Price hikes, rapid-fire fluctuations in Sensex, loopholes in national security and the âflopâ foreign policy marked its rule so far, he said.

07-09-2006, 08:38 PM

QUOTEGovt in Blunderland 
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
* 76% say price rise will be UPA's nemesis, * 58% Venugopal ouster has enraged, * 72% tag UPA betrayer of aam aadmi ---- Mid-term assessments are traditionally not very comfortable for Governments but for the Congress-led UPA coalition at the Centre, things could not have been more turbulent.Â Â

India's aam aadmi has had enough in its two-and-a-half-year reign - what with prices on a high tide, quota troubles revisiting, sensex crashing, a puppet PM, disinvestment being stalled to please allies, the Maoist umbrella spreading over the entire nation and foreign policy taking disturbing turns.

A Pioneer-C Voter survey (1228 plus respondents at 16 points in each of the four metros), held between July 1-8 2006, shows that there is growing public anger over the Government's failure on all fronts, especially price rise.

However, 51 per cent of the respondents feel that the Government will last its full term, though 58 per cent would be voting for a change if snap polls were to be held today.

Are you satisfied with the performance of the Congress-led UPA Government on the following issues?
OBC reservation issue:
Valid Percent
Yes 39
No 51
Can't Say 10
Total 100

Coordination with UPA partners:
Valid Percent
Yes 44
No 48
Can't Say 8
Total 100

Disinvestment of PSU companies:
Valid Percent
Yes 54
No 32
Can't Say 16
Total 100

The pressure of Left Front:
Valid Percent
Yes 57
No 33
Can't Say 10
Total 100

Indo -US nuclear deal:
Valid Percent
Yes 58
No 30
Can't Say 12
Total 100

Welfare of the "Aam Aadmi":
Valid Percent
Yes 27
No 72
Can't Say 1
Total 100

Price rise / Inflation:
Valid Percent
Yes 22
No 76
Can't Say 2
Total 100

Secularism/ communal harmony:
Valid Percent
Yes 51
No 33
Can't Say 16
Total 100
Â
Law & Order:
Valid Percent
Yes 42
No 55
Can't Say 3
Total 100

Overall Governance:
Valid Percent
Yes 43
No 50
Can't Say 8
Total 100

Do you think the decision to remove AIIMS Director Dr Venugopal from his post is correct?

Valid Percent
Yes 27
No 58
Can't Say 15
Total 100

Do you think that Dr Manmohan Singh is a strong PM?
Valid Percent
Yes 43
No 54
Can't Say 4
Total 100

Do you think this Government will complete its five-year term? 
Valid Percent
Yes 51
No 41
Can't Say 8
Total 100

Are you satisfied with the overall performance of the Congress-led UPA Government?

Valid Percent
Yes 44
No 52
Can't Say 4

Total 100

If elections happen right now, will you vote for/re-elect this Government?
Valid Percent
Yes 37
No 58
Can't Say 5

Total 100

Most important issue facing the nation:
Corruption: 49%
Price rise: 40%
Others: 11%

Who would you like to replace immediately?:
Central Govt: 46%
State Govt: 30%
Prime Minister: 24%

Is your life moving as fast as the nation?
India shining, not me: 30%
Both in poor state: 24%
I'm shining but not India: 17%
Both progressing: 29%

07-09-2006, 10:49 PM

QUOTE(Mudy @ Jul 7 2006, 01:52 PM)Current situation may force midterm election. All tiny miny parties are extracting maximum blood from UPA and Country.
UPA will try best to avoid mid-term in Nov-Dec 2006 along with UP, Punjab, Uttranchal state election.
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Mudy,

Why would there be a midterm polls? The commies dont want it, as they still have lot of institutions to destroy, like the supreme court, CEC etc. Same goes for PMK and ramdoss. the allies in the UPA want to enjoy power, laloo just lost in bihar, he does not want elections now. MMS would rather die than lose his PM post. DMK just came to power in TN, they need central support to take care of Jayalalitha (a nice chance was missed in jaya's case going on in b'lore. now bjp is in power in k'taka). Sharad pawar wants to enjoy his BCCI post for a bit longer. so he would not pull the plug. Sonia is only concerned about how the UPA failure would affect her popularity. It is still nost all lost for her, she can still escape by making MMS the fall guy and get her glory back.

So there is no way this govt is coming down before term. Who will pull it down? No one.

07-10-2006, 01:33 AM

QUOTESo there is no way this govt is coming down before term. Who will pull it down? No one.
Division in Congress itself can speed up process. But I think TRS and other sundry parties may start juggernaut.
Coming parliament session, UPA may try couple of stupidty
1) Reservation - don't forget colleges will be open, straight invitation for street demonstration.
2) Office of Profit issue will be back, lets see how many CPI member meet chopping board, or muscle flexing may create another illegal constution situation, which may invite SC.
3) Nuclear deal
4) AIIMS issue will be back, PMK will make this as ego fest.

In all, recipe for street demonstration etc.

08-02-2006, 07:46 PM

QUOTEhttp://www.samachar.com/features/020806-features.html

Watch PresidentÃ¯Â¿Â½s next move on OoP: Will MPs force snap polls?

By Rajinder Puri

Up to now political events have been moving along a predicted course. Readers might recall it had been surmised that threats by the Left parties and certain UPA allies, pertaining to price rise and disinvestment, were actuated in fact by the approaching Office of Profit crisis.

Although few politicians talked about this crisis, it could eventually unseat over eighty MPs. It was speculated that if delay in the Office of Profit Bill becoming an Act threatened to unseat MPs, some of them would prefer a mid-term general election. Populist issues propagated by Congress and some of its allies were traced to the contingency plan of a possible snap poll.

Now the crisis seems to be approaching a denouement. The Election Commission is processing allegations against over forty MPs of having violated the Office of Profit law. Those found guilty will be unseated. Fifty-six MPs have already been identified. Their number keeps rising. The President raised legal questions regarding the Office of Profit bill. He returned it to Parliament for reconsideration.

With indecent haste Congress and Left parties are passing the bill without alteration for the President to sign. The Rajya Sabha has already cleared it. By the time this appears in print the Lok Sabha most likely would also have passed it.

Under the Constitution the President cannot return the bill for a second time. But he can, under Article 143 of the Constitution, refer it to the Supreme Court for advice regarding the billÃ¯Â¿Â½s legality.

The President had earlier signed an Ordinance to dissolve the Bihar assembly. The Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. If he were to repeat the blunder of signing a bill found subsequently unconstitutional, the damage to his reputation could be fatal. The bill in its present form would very likely be struck down by the Supreme Court if an appeal were made.

The President would, therefore, be failing in his responsibility if he did not confirm the legal soundness of the bill before affixing his signature.

It has become in consequence a race to determine what moves faster, the disposal of the cases before the EC or the enactment of the new law that would save the MPs. The desperation of the situation is evident from the outpouring of legal comment, to the effect that the President has no power to act in the matter without permission of the cabinet.

One legal expert in a newspaper article quoted statements by some of the ConstitutionÃ¯Â¿Â½s makers affirming that our system was akin to the Westminster model and that the President was circumscribed like the British sovereign.

Unfortunately for him, and others like him, our Constitution is written and is explicit. If the assumptions of some founding fathers were not incorporated in the written Constitution they lose relevance.

Nowhere is it written in our Constitution that India is guided by the British system, or that our elected President is akin to the British sovereign. It has also been argued that the President can invoke Article 143 only by sending the bill for the Supreme CourtÃ¯Â¿Â½s advice through the cabinet. This too is questionable.

But even if it were so, would it imply that the cabinet could refuse to oblige the President, and forward his request to the Supreme Court? If this option is under serious consideration the panic of the government is nothing short of pathetic.

Earlier, discussing political motives in this crisis, this column had stated: Ã¯Â¿Â½The President and EC may sort out the crisis. If they donÃ¯Â¿Â½t, topple the government! The final outcome may stun them.Ã¯Â¿Â½

Will this happen? One issue which could be seized to overthrow the government might be the Indo-US nuclear deal. The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly supported the deal. Indian concerns were protected in the US resolution.

Apart from addressing IndiaÃ¯Â¿Â½snuclear concerns, reference to India restraining Iran has been excluded from the US resolution. But the deal is running into trouble in IndiaÃ¯Â¿Â½s own parliament. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh categorically reaffirmed that no prior commitment made by the government to parliament would be breached.

Nevertheless the Left parties insisted that a resolution defining the parameters of the agreement be passed by parliament before the deal may be signed. In this the Left was vigorously supported by former foreign minister Mr Natwar Singh. The BJP also supported this view. But after the BJP support the Left became ambivalent. Its position at the moment of writing is unclear. But the most curious and possibly significant role is being played by senior Congress leaders themselves.

A responsible national daily reported the proceedings of a meeting between the UPA government and leaders of the Left parties held last week. The government team was led by Pranab Mukherjee who was accompanied by Priyaranjan Dasmunshi, Suresh Pachauri and V Narayanswamy.

These team members are eminently compatible with the LeftÃ¯Â¿Â½s views in most policy matters. But the meeting took a strange turn. Despite assurances given by the PM on the nuclear deal, the Left leaders were reportedly adamant about introducing a resolution in parliament to convey the sense of the house on the nuclear deal.

If their insistence was strange, the reaction of the government leaders was stranger. Mukherjee reportedly gave an odd reaction in case the Left parties moved the resolution. He said: Ã¯Â¿Â½Then I am not in the government, and the government would not be there.Ã¯Â¿Â½

Was this confrontation or collusion with his dear Marxist friends who had helped him get elected to Lok Sabha? Notwithstanding MukherjeeÃ¯Â¿Â½s warning, Prakash Karat later told the media that the PMÃ¯Â¿Â½s statement was not good enough.

The resolution was required to provide the framework in which the nuclear deal could proceed. But Jyoti Basu ruled out any resolution and withdrawal of support to the government on account of the nuclear deal. Government sources, most strangely of all, advised media persons that the resolution if moved would be tantamount to a no-confidence move. That is not the case.

So is the government laying the foundation for being toppled if events dictate a mid-term poll? Mukherjee along with eighteen Left MPs is threatened by the Office of Profit crisis. Is that pure coincidence?

Expectedly the bill will be cleared and forwarded to President Kalam for signing by the time this appears in print. If he delays signing it, MPs could pre-empt the Election Commission from unseating them. They could force a mid-term poll.

If not the nuclear deal, they could seize some other issue. But toppling the government may not necessarily serve their purpose. A fluid situation can spring unpleasant surprises.

08-06-2006, 08:58 PM

Privilege motion moved against Prime Minister QUOTENatwar had met Bardhan earlier on Sunday.

"I spoke to Rajdeep Sardesai. He is a fine man and he told me that he knew the contents of the report beforehand," Bardhan said.

The SP, TDP and AIADMK together have a total of strength of 33 members in 245-member Rajya Sabha. The support of a minimum of 25 members is necessary for an admission of a privilege motion.

Natwar has met Amar Singh, General Secretary of Samajwadi Party, which has extended an open invitation to him to join it, and even BJP leaders in the last two days

08-06-2006, 11:28 PM

<img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='dry.gif' /> The report is being tabled tomorrow; so, this privilege motion has no veracity and there is nothing to be gained.

08-07-2006, 12:49 AM

Congress will try something stupid. But I can bet, Natwar will bring lot good stuff out. For Queen Sonia, its better to call truce with Natwar to keep her Kingdom intact.

08-07-2006, 12:56 AM

That what I have said few days back. Spineless MMS is a mole.
Manmohan had opposed nuke tests: JaswantQUOTE"I have information that Singh, the then Finance Minister in the Rao government, was opposed to the nuclear tests and had cited financial problems which could arise due to the tests," Jaswant told Aaj Tak.

The BJP leader also asked the Prime Minister to reveal whether his opinion was sought on this issue or not. "If his opinion was not sought, then it raises a question. If the opinion was sought, what was his opinion".

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Is the UPA Government dead?
The signs are that the ruling coalition in India is dying if not dead and that the country may be drawn into another election if the government implodes

by: mehulkamdar

Some time ago, Indian Express editor, Shekhar Gupta, an open supporter of the BJP, gleefully taunted the current Government of India telling them that he had been told by friends in the government that they had not expected to win the last elections themselves. At a time when the BJP was squirming with multiple problems of its own including the murder of it's star organiser Pramod Mahajan by his own brother, it's huge internal turmoil over it's senior leader L K Advani's "secular" chit to Md Ali Jinnah on a trip to Pakistan etc, this cocky comment by Gupta underlined the fact that the BJP was confident that, whatever it's own problems, those of the Congress were greater.

There is no doubt that Manmohan singh sits in Delhi, 150 years after Bahadur Shah Zafar, as yet another soft ruler, incapable of any haed decision. While he is respected for his learning and his ability to think and plan ahead, few give him any credit for an ability to execute these very plans. A disinvestment proposal was shot down not just by his own coalition members but also by the grand dame of his own party, Sonia Gandhi, the woman who holds the strings that make Manmohan dance. Manmohan has also had to grin clownishly when his own party's rank and file has demanded that he be replaced by Rahul Gandhi, true to the Congress' attempts at a near monarchic succession. Indeed, it is possible that he knows that he is little more than a caretaker of the PM's position for Rahul Gandhi who may take it up whenever he chooses and his mother gives him her blessings. As a former bureaucrat who learned to dance to his political masters' tunes Manmohan is certain to stand to attention and obey whenever he is asked to stand down.

But this is not about an individual alone. The government in power has been a flop show in so many ways that it boggles the mind that such a government remains in power. Naxalite terrorists have managed to lay siege to prisons and free more than a thousand of their cohorts, making law and order a farce under the UPA. Individual liberties in the country have been threatened by rogue ministers whom the Prime Minister seems powerless to rein in. An example of this is Anbumani Ramdoss, Minister for Health, whose actions seem to combine fascist and lunatic tendencies. From sending his cadres to harass actresses to using a coterie of bootlickers to harass heads of medical institutions, the man has little to show except his own obnoxiousness. And, while he prances about on the national stage, the Prime Minister appears ever more clownish in his complete silence whenever his minister puts up a freak show.

And there is corruption - Dayanidhi Maran's thuggish attempts at bullying the Tata group are now famous, indeed. And what was the Prime Minister's response? Silence. Absolute, pin-drop silence. Common people anywhere in the world have the decency to alert their neighbours if they see a thief about to enter their homes. The Prime Minister of India lacks the power to check thievery at a national level when his own ministers go about trying to force leading industrial groups into handing over what is rightfully theirs. And, in addition to all of these problems, is the problem of stupidity - Arjun Singh, a man whose political career should have been buried an age ago, is allowed to hold national institutions from expanding abroad right through his own career rigor-mortis. Another gerontocrat, Priyaranjan Dasmunshi was almost allowed to get away with banning the Da Vinci code film in what was a blatant attempt at courting some religious groups and getting their support when the government was teetering on the brink. When Dasmunshi failed, Manmohan's state minions took over in Andhra Pradesh and Tamilnadu until the courts put an end to this madness. Considering the singularly inane pronouncements that Dasmunshi, Arjun Singh, Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and M Karunanidhi put out on the issue of the Da Vinci Code film, it would not be unreasonable to decide that none of these men had read it. It would be reasonable, in fact, to conclude, that even if they did read it, they would not figure out what it was really about. And yet, these people decided to throw their weight around and emulate the late Rajiv Gandhi whose inspirational value in banning the Satanic Verses seems to permeate their decision making these days.

The country has also seen fraud committed in the matter of agricultural policy. Wheat imports were organised in a manner that was closed, opaque and suspicious. What was worse was that whoever contracted the wheat that did finally land in India from Aistralia did not bother to insist on quality norms - it was found badly contaminated and unfit for human consumption when it did arrive. Now, the government plans to allow private companies to import wheat at a time when the coun try has a bumper crop. Advanced grain storage systems which would save at least 40% of the country's wheat and rice production from being consumed by pests is something that has been on the cards for many decades but is still not being implemented despite loud noises come budget time that this is, indeed, going to be done.

And there is the attempt at destroying the Right to Information in an attempt at guarding the incompetence and corruption of the neta-babu class. What could be a better example of the fact that this government is failing and fast than its own attempt at covering up its foul ups? If one were to compile a list of mess-ups by this government, it would assume encyclopedic proportions. In India, over the past three decades, it has been evident that an active populace does not wait for things to get completely out of hand. In a country where the general public's enthusiasm for the democratic process is the envy of other democracies and where vast portions of the population comes out to vote come election day, the pressure to perform on governments is high. The fact that the present UPA government is unable to do anything positive in the country seems to point to its coming demise. And, if that demise must come, it cannot come soon enough. Someone once described Parliament as a committee of village idiots with the devil for a leader - the description fits the present government better than it has any of the governments that India has seen over the past 30 years.

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09-15-2006, 04:38 AM

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10-20-2006, 08:22 PM

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--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /> 'Congress-Left a temporary arrangement' 
Agencies | Chandigarh
Criticising the Centre's policies, senior CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta today said the gap between the Left and UPA was widening and there was a possibility of mid-term elections.

"The gap of understanding and depth of differences between the Left and UPA Government is widening. There is a possibility of elections soon," he told a news conference here.

Dasgupta, who is All-India Trade Union Congress general secretary, termed the UPA a "temporary arrangement" and said the Left was trying to get more concessions from it.

He announced that AITUC activists would picket Parliament House on November 23 and hold a nationwide strike on December 14 to protest setting up of special economic zones (SEZs) and policies on labour and petro price hikes among other issues.

On the relations between the Congress and Left, which extends outside support to the UPA, he claimed "it is not we (Left parties) but they (Congress) who are losing face" and accused the UPA of one-sided policy decisions.

Dasgupta said the Left parties would not allow passage of a single "anti-people" bill and at least seven bills including financial sector reforms, banks merger, pension and Trade Union Act, were pending for want of clearance from the Left.

He also lashed out at the BJP, which he called "a sinking boat" and said the Left considered it a "severe threat" to the country. "The BJP plays politics of religion. For them temple is a priority and they want to divide the country on communal lines," he said.

03-16-2007, 10:21 PM

MDMK withdraws support from UPA QUOTENew Delhi: MDMK on Friday broke its three year-old relationship with the UPA and withdrew support to the Manmohan Singh ministry.
MDMK has four MPs, of which two - L Ganesan and Gingee Ramachandran - have split and sought separate seats in the Lok Sabha, though not removed from MDMK.

The party, led by Vaiko, has two MPs in Dr C Krishnan and V Ravichandran now.

04-11-2007, 03:20 AM

QUOTELet's review support to UPA, CPI tells Left parties
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Santanu Banerjee | New Delhi
It's official now! After three years of uneasy togetherness, the Left Front partners have begun thinking in terms of divorcing the UPA.

Ringing the alarm bells for the UPA, the Central Secretariat of the CPI on Tuesday asked other Left parties to sit back and think of reviewing its support to the Congress-led alliance following its total failure in controlling price rise and pro-rich economic policies.

The RSP has already asked the Left partners to withdraw support to the UPA Government.

"The public anger against the Government is manifest everywhere, if one sees the Assembly election results,'' said CPI general secretary AB Bardhan.

The veteran CPI leader, who has been consistent in his criticism of the Congress' economic policies, added that "We supported this Government to keep away the communal forces like the BJP and expected the Congress to adhere to the NationalCommon Minimum Programme (NMCP), but this is not happening."

Bardhan's call to the Left partners to review support to the UPA has come at a time when the UPA allies are very unhappy with the Congress over price rise, and feel they may also have to pay political cost for their association with the UPA.

Accusing the UPA Government of all-round failure, Bardhan said by pursuing anti-people policies, it was only helping the BJP.

04-27-2007, 04:04 AM

QUOTECPI asks UPA allies to reconsider their support 
PIoneer.com
PTI | New Delhi
In a warning to the ruling UPA coalition, CPI today asked other Left and other supporting parties to consider why they should continue their support to the UPA Government as the policies of the Government were "only benefiting" the rich and not the majority of people.

Calling Finance Minister P Chidambaram "Mister Failure", party leader Gurudas Dasgupta said "for three months, his prescription (to bring down prices) has failed".

"CPI calls upon Left and democratic parties supporting the Government to consider what is the point in continuing to extend support to the Government. It is a non-performing one which is working hard to provide benefits to Indian and foreign corporates", he told reporters here.

Asked why his party was not taking the lead in withdrawing support to the Government, Dasgupta said "we cannot take a stand single-handedly. We are raising a debate amongst the Left parties and others who are supporting the UPA. We are asking them to make up their mind".

Citing Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyer as saying that the 9.2 per cent growth of the economy was only for 0.02 per cent of the people, Dasgupta said "he is a Cabinet Minister. These are the contradictions in the Government".Â

04-29-2007, 09:50 PM

My 2 cents!!!

Withdrawl of support to UPA is a joke. They know their end in such a case. BJP, by winning in several states they have just proved the bi-polarity in Indian politics in spite of coalition politics.

The best case scenario in UP for BJP is to be a largest party and be in opposition until the general election. After general elections they could absorb some parts of third front into them to make the UP government.

Third front parties are frustrated a lot. They have to be with Congress or BJP and there is no other option.

Left and Congress have to live with each other otherwise they will die a natural death if BJP stays in power for two consecutive terms at centre.

The problems of Indian politics are mostly from third front partners of Congress and BJP. Thier base is same whether they allign with BJP or Congress. Some of them like Mulayam and TDP added a chunk of Muslims to them. All congress can do is to steal this bank from them. So far unsuccessful in spite of overtly partial policies towards garnering this section. If congress succeeds then the third front is just a backward/middle castes section of Hindu family. BJP will not have problems even if this section is external section and it can easily rule with this section (Ex: Nitish's Janata and Orissa's BJD's) .

In the long run, the success of any Hindu party lies in unifying the so called backwards with forward castes. Until then there will be no strong Hindu politics.

The best thing that the enemy of Hindutva could do is keep burning the reservations issues and keep apeasing the Minorities to make sure that this section of peasants and forward castes never see the big picture.

For BJP to grow, it has to concentrate to get the elements of Sharad pawar from Maharastra, elements of TDP from AP(not that difficult), elements of AIADMK from TN. They need to do some billions of investments in these areas. If they succeed here then the game is up.

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