2009 Poll Prospects And Alignments-2

[Capt M Kumar]

<!--emo&<_<--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='dry.gif' /><!--endemo--> In the first signs of reconciliation between Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee and CPM leadership, the former has indicated willingness to toe the party line and vote against the UPA government’s trust motion, in case there is a tie. The chair can exercise its right for a casting vote as a tiebreaker.

Sources familiar with the speaker’s consultation with different people told HT that Chatterjee is aware of his primary association with the CPM and has no intention to disown it.