07-18-2008, 11:22 PM
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As numbers game gets tough, help of even sick MPs sought</b>
New Delhi (PTI): With next week's trust vote set to go right down the wire, sick and ailing MPs may be airlifted in desperate measures by party managers.
And whose word will be final--that of the doctor or the party leadership--is just a matter of time. But party bosses are keeping their fingers crossed so that no vote is lost by default that may mar their objective.
Film star-turned-MP Dharmendra of the BJP is also being reportedly rushed from Los Angeles where is shooting for a film so that he is in time for the July 22 trust vote sought by the UPA government. in the Lok Sabha.
With fingers of party managers of rival alliances constantly at the calculators rustling the numbers, efforts were also underway by political parties to convince the Lok Sabha secretariat to allow ailing MPs to cast their vote from the Lobby of parliament house.
This concession for former prime minister and BJP veteran Atal Behari Vajpayee and others has been reportedly sought on the ground that it would be difficult for the ailing MPs to reach their respective seats in the House.
BJP's Mahesh Kanodia, who is also a well known singer, is unwell after undergoing an open heart surgery and party managers are mulling bringing him by air ambulance to Delhi.
Another MP of the saffron party Harish Chandra Chavan who is recovering from injuries in a Nashik hospital is in a precarious condition since doctors say it will take another two months for him to get better.
"I have told the party leadership and the doctors that if my conditions does not worsen by going for the trust vote by air I will surely go. But if it will, I will have to listen to my doctors and not travel," Chavan said.
A doctor attending on him said it will not be advisable for the MP to travel.
As numbers game gets tough, help of even sick MPs sought</b>
New Delhi (PTI): With next week's trust vote set to go right down the wire, sick and ailing MPs may be airlifted in desperate measures by party managers.
And whose word will be final--that of the doctor or the party leadership--is just a matter of time. But party bosses are keeping their fingers crossed so that no vote is lost by default that may mar their objective.
Film star-turned-MP Dharmendra of the BJP is also being reportedly rushed from Los Angeles where is shooting for a film so that he is in time for the July 22 trust vote sought by the UPA government. in the Lok Sabha.
With fingers of party managers of rival alliances constantly at the calculators rustling the numbers, efforts were also underway by political parties to convince the Lok Sabha secretariat to allow ailing MPs to cast their vote from the Lobby of parliament house.
This concession for former prime minister and BJP veteran Atal Behari Vajpayee and others has been reportedly sought on the ground that it would be difficult for the ailing MPs to reach their respective seats in the House.
BJP's Mahesh Kanodia, who is also a well known singer, is unwell after undergoing an open heart surgery and party managers are mulling bringing him by air ambulance to Delhi.
Another MP of the saffron party Harish Chandra Chavan who is recovering from injuries in a Nashik hospital is in a precarious condition since doctors say it will take another two months for him to get better.
"I have told the party leadership and the doctors that if my conditions does not worsen by going for the trust vote by air I will surely go. But if it will, I will have to listen to my doctors and not travel," Chavan said.
A doctor attending on him said it will not be advisable for the MP to travel.