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| RJD breaks ice, Cong spreads warmth |
| RJD breaks ice, Cong spreads warmth
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| INDIA
, 14-May-2009
2:9:45 AM |
| Union Minister Prem Chand Gupta, a confidant of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday, signalling the RJD’s readiness to break bread with the Congress again. While official sources said there was nothing political about the meeting, the RJD chief’s message did not go unnoticed.
The Congress was, however, not particularly enthusiastic about the return of its old ally with its internal survey on Wednesday giving the RJD and Ram Vilas Paswan’s LJP together only nine seats in Bihar.
Senior NCP leader P A Sangma also met JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav in Delhi on Wednesday, but the party sought to play it down maintaining that the NCP was firmly with the Congress. “There may be some hiccups (in Meghalaya) but that is part of the game. The NCP is very much part of the UPA and we are happy with it. We are committed to giving this country a secular government,” NCP leader Supriya Sule told The Indian Express.
With its internal assessment after the last phase of polling pegging the UPA’s tally around 225, the Congress was open to the idea of an alliance with any party, except the BJP and the Shiv Sena. For that matter, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh dropped hints about the party’s readiness to woo Mayawati.
Asked if the Congress was ready to dismiss Mayawati Government, as proposed by the Samajwadi Party as a precondition to support to any formation at the Centre, Singh said, “There is no question of dismissing a duly elected state Government.” He said only the BJP and the Shiv Sena were “communal” with whom Congress will have no truck.
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