UPA's Survival On 22nd July? And Aftermath

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<b>Congress hits out at Left parties</b>
Gargi Parsai

Left suffering from ‘Stockholm Syndrome’

UPA flock is together, says Moily
NEW DELHI: Even as speculation was rife about the “numbers” the United Progressive Alliance government had so far mustered to win a trust vote in Parliament on July 22, the Congress on Friday hit out at the Left parties for “forming a family with the communal Bharatiya Janata Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party and adopting a destructive role.”

“We are 280-plus and are firm and confident that our numbers won’t be less than this. This will give sleepless nights to the Left leaders and the Bharatiya Janata Party,” senior party leader and chairman of the AICC Media Committee, M. Veerappa Moily, said here.
“Be positive”
<b>Charging the Left parties with suffering from the ‘Stockholm Syndrome,’ he appealed to them to be positive. “They are suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome, that is, when you start enjoying the suffering. They seem to have adopted a destructive role and are compromising the interest of the country.”
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(Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in an abducted hostage in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the hostage-taker regardless of the danger.)<b>

According to Mr. Moily, all parties opposed to the UPA were destabilising the government. “All those who want to destabilise the government, their interest is to destabilise politics and democracy,” he said.</b>

Accusing the Left, the BJP and the BSP of “poaching” to get the support of MPs to defeat the trust vote, he said, “The perception is that they belong to one family. I would like to know from [Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary] Prakash Karat as to when the Left parties joined the BJP, who have a communal agenda?”

Claiming that the UPA “flock was together,” he said Shibu Soren’s Jharkhand Mukti Morcha was a “part and parcel” of the UPA, while Janata Dal (Secular) leader Deve Gowda was meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday.

Asked if the government had offered a Ministerial berth to Mr. Soren, he said, “There is no Constitutional injunction against it.”