SP rules out withdrawal of support to UPA
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New Delhi, Nov 01, 2008: Samajwadi Party remained ambiguous over whether its MPs will resign from the Lok Sabha on the issue of attacks on north Indians in Maharashtra and felt Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was "helpless" in dealing with the situation there. Blaming Congress and NCP for the current situation in Maharashtra,
it said the coalition government in the state was "soft pedalling" MNS leader Raj Thackeray to counter Shiv Sena's Bal Thackeray. SP General Secretary Amar Singh described Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh as "useless".
"In the interest of people from north India, we can go to any extent if such a situation develops. But even now there is time. We still have some hopes on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi," Amar Singh told a press conference here on Friday.
He was asked whether his party MPs would resign from Parliament over the issue. The party has 33 MPs in the lower house and played a crucial role during the July 22 trust vote by rescuing the Government after Left parties withdrew support.
On whether the party will withdraw support to the UPA government on the issue, he said there is no question of withdrawing support to the government but in the same breath he added that their support was not relevant to the government any longer having survived the trust vote.
Despite Prime Minister's repeated intervention, he said Maharashtra government had failed to curb violence against north Indians there.
Maintaining that the SP has been asking the Centre to check the volatile situation in Maharashtra, Singh said, "I am not here to celebrate the Prime Minister's helplessness in public".
He was replying to a question on the Prime Minister's reported remarks that what more could he do after writing a strongly worded letter to the Maharashtra Chief Minister.
(Agencies)
it said the coalition government in the state was "soft pedalling" MNS leader Raj Thackeray to counter Shiv Sena's Bal Thackeray. SP General Secretary Amar Singh described Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh as "useless".
"In the interest of people from north India, we can go to any extent if such a situation develops. But even now there is time. We still have some hopes on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi," Amar Singh told a press conference here on Friday.
He was asked whether his party MPs would resign from Parliament over the issue. The party has 33 MPs in the lower house and played a crucial role during the July 22 trust vote by rescuing the Government after Left parties withdrew support.
On whether the party will withdraw support to the UPA government on the issue, he said there is no question of withdrawing support to the government but in the same breath he added that their support was not relevant to the government any longer having survived the trust vote.
Despite Prime Minister's repeated intervention, he said Maharashtra government had failed to curb violence against north Indians there.
Maintaining that the SP has been asking the Centre to check the volatile situation in Maharashtra, Singh said, "I am not here to celebrate the Prime Minister's helplessness in public".
He was replying to a question on the Prime Minister's reported remarks that what more could he do after writing a strongly worded letter to the Maharashtra Chief Minister.
(Agencies)
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