07-04-2008, 11:30 AM
<b>Congress hopes of early SP support dashed</b>
Thu, Jul 3 06:56 PM
New Delhi, Jul 3 (PTI) Congress hopes of getting an early comitment of support from Samajwadi Party on the nuclear deal were dashed for the present as Left parties braced themselves up for deciding the modalities of withdrawal of support to the UPA Government. In the face of aggressive Congress efforts to woo one of its major constituents, the UNPA today managed to put up a united face by apparently persuading Samajwadi Party to hold its cards on the Indo-US nuclear deal.
"We are not going to give a certificate of support to the Prime Minister on the deal before July six," INLD leader Om Prakash Chautala told a press conference after a four-hour meeting of the UNPA that consists of SP, TDP, AGP, INLD and JVP. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves for the G-8 summit in Japan on July seven which the Left parties feel is an indicator that the Government is going ahead with the deal. "We are all united.
We are one," said SP Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. However, the Samajwadi Party, whose 39 MPs may be crucial to the UPA Government in the Lok Sabha if the Left parties withdraw support, again gave indications of tilting towards Congress when it said "communalism is a bigger danger than the nuclear deal".
"I said it yesterday. And I repeat it today," SP General Secretary, Amar Singh, who was briefed by National Security Advisor M K Narayanan on the deal yesterday, said in the presence of SP Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu, INLD Chief O P Chautala, AGP chief Brindavan Goswami and Jharkhand Vikas Party leader Babulal Marandi.
PTI.
Thu, Jul 3 06:56 PM
New Delhi, Jul 3 (PTI) Congress hopes of getting an early comitment of support from Samajwadi Party on the nuclear deal were dashed for the present as Left parties braced themselves up for deciding the modalities of withdrawal of support to the UPA Government. In the face of aggressive Congress efforts to woo one of its major constituents, the UNPA today managed to put up a united face by apparently persuading Samajwadi Party to hold its cards on the Indo-US nuclear deal.
"We are not going to give a certificate of support to the Prime Minister on the deal before July six," INLD leader Om Prakash Chautala told a press conference after a four-hour meeting of the UNPA that consists of SP, TDP, AGP, INLD and JVP. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves for the G-8 summit in Japan on July seven which the Left parties feel is an indicator that the Government is going ahead with the deal. "We are all united.
We are one," said SP Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. However, the Samajwadi Party, whose 39 MPs may be crucial to the UPA Government in the Lok Sabha if the Left parties withdraw support, again gave indications of tilting towards Congress when it said "communalism is a bigger danger than the nuclear deal".
"I said it yesterday. And I repeat it today," SP General Secretary, Amar Singh, who was briefed by National Security Advisor M K Narayanan on the deal yesterday, said in the presence of SP Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu, INLD Chief O P Chautala, AGP chief Brindavan Goswami and Jharkhand Vikas Party leader Babulal Marandi.
PTI.