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| Allies not happy with Sonia comment |
| Bhandari said sometimes party leaderships have to play to the gallery and, therefore, they talk in such a tone.
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| INDIA
, 19-November-2007
3:46:28 AM |
| The talk at the just-concluded AICC session on the issue of coalition appears to have not gone down well with the UPA partners and supporting parties.
While CPI(M) said the Congress was known for its ''record of flip flops on the coalition issue, NCP General Secretary D P Tripathi in a tongue-in-cheek remark said ''I welcome Congress President Sonia Gandhi's speech especially the part in which she spoke about coalition dharma''.
CPI's D Raja wanted the Congress to realise that the party's talk that it would not leave its political space for ever ''applied to others also'' and suggested that other parties would also act likewise.
At the day-long AICC session on Saturday, Gandhi had set the tone by saying that coalition does not mean the party should lose its political space for ever and had declared that it should get back to the days of its glorious past.
The talk of revival of Congress and shedding coalition politics had come over a year ahead of the Lok Sabha elections and when the Congress-led UPA government has completed three-and-half years in office at the head of a coalition.
RJD's Vice President Ram Dev Bhandari, whose party is the second largest constituent of the UPA, downplayed the talk and resolution at the AICC which said coalition cannot be at the cost of revival of the Congress itself particularly in states where its base has been eroded.
Bhandari said sometimes party leaderships have to play to the gallery and, therefore, they talk in such a tone.
The Left parties as also RJD and NCP reminded the Congress that it should understand that the country was passing through a coalition era.
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