07-15-2008, 05:58 AM
<!--emo&<_<--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='dry.gif' /><!--endemo--> Former union IT minister and DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran announced on Monday night that he would abstain during the crucial confidence vote in parliament on July 22.
The former minister and Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's estranged grandnephew issued a statement late in the night refuting rumours that he would vote against the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), and said, "I will rather abstain."
Two Dravidian party MPs had failed to vote at crucial moments. One of them, Sedappatti Muthiah (AIADMK), had 'forgotten' to cast his vote in support of then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1999, while S.S. Rajendran (DMK) had claimed to be answering the call of nature during a similar instance in the mid-80s.
http://www.indiatoday.digitaltoday.in/inde...d=1§ionid=4
The former minister and Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's estranged grandnephew issued a statement late in the night refuting rumours that he would vote against the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), and said, "I will rather abstain."
Two Dravidian party MPs had failed to vote at crucial moments. One of them, Sedappatti Muthiah (AIADMK), had 'forgotten' to cast his vote in support of then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1999, while S.S. Rajendran (DMK) had claimed to be answering the call of nature during a similar instance in the mid-80s.
http://www.indiatoday.digitaltoday.in/inde...d=1§ionid=4