07-13-2008, 10:53 PM
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Left wooing TRS in its fight against govt.</b>
New Delhi (PTI): Having made it clear that they will reach out to like-minded parties to corner the UPA Government, the Left parties have started efforts to rope in three-MP-strong Telengana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) into its fold ahead of the trust vote.
A senior CPI leader has already spoken to TRS leadership, including its chief K Chandrasekhar Rao who has said that he would vote for the Congress-led Government if it promises separate statehood for Telengana, to support the efforts to topple the government on the nuclear deal, sources said.
The TRS leadership was non-committal and the Left was trying to persuade Rao, who resigned from the Union Cabinet and withdrew support to the Government over the Telengana issue, to join them, they said.
The Left have already roped in BSP and TDP to vote against the Government in the trust vote while they are in talks with other smaller parties like JD(S), whose chief H D Deve Gowda met Left leaders without committing anything.
Rebel JD(S) Lok Sabha member M P Veerendrakumar has already announced his decision to vote against the Government even in the event of his party issuing a whip to support the ruling coalition.
CPI(M) Polit Bureau member K Varadharajan, told PTI that the Left will persuade all like-minded parties to vote against the UPA government during the trust vote as it "did not keep up the promise and assurances it gave to the Left" four years back.
"Already we have met the leaders of TDP and other like-minded parties opposed to the nuclear deal and have appealed to them to vote against the UPA dispensation," he said.
Left wooing TRS in its fight against govt.</b>
New Delhi (PTI): Having made it clear that they will reach out to like-minded parties to corner the UPA Government, the Left parties have started efforts to rope in three-MP-strong Telengana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) into its fold ahead of the trust vote.
A senior CPI leader has already spoken to TRS leadership, including its chief K Chandrasekhar Rao who has said that he would vote for the Congress-led Government if it promises separate statehood for Telengana, to support the efforts to topple the government on the nuclear deal, sources said.
The TRS leadership was non-committal and the Left was trying to persuade Rao, who resigned from the Union Cabinet and withdrew support to the Government over the Telengana issue, to join them, they said.
The Left have already roped in BSP and TDP to vote against the Government in the trust vote while they are in talks with other smaller parties like JD(S), whose chief H D Deve Gowda met Left leaders without committing anything.
Rebel JD(S) Lok Sabha member M P Veerendrakumar has already announced his decision to vote against the Government even in the event of his party issuing a whip to support the ruling coalition.
CPI(M) Polit Bureau member K Varadharajan, told PTI that the Left will persuade all like-minded parties to vote against the UPA government during the trust vote as it "did not keep up the promise and assurances it gave to the Left" four years back.
"Already we have met the leaders of TDP and other like-minded parties opposed to the nuclear deal and have appealed to them to vote against the UPA dispensation," he said.