NCP in touch with UPA allies, to decide in 48 hrs

Jul 25, 2012 - Venkatesh Kesari |

New Delhi

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The NCP is in touch with the UPA allies — Trinamul Congress, DMK and National Conference — on the issues of creating a structured coordination mechanism in the ruling front and consultations with them on policy matters before the Cabinet takes a view on it.

The Sharad Pawar-led party has decided to quit the Cabinet if the issues are not resolved in the next 48 hours.

While the NCP is delinking these issues from Maharashtra where it has been sharing power with the Congress since 1999, a section of Congress MLAs in the state, in a letter addressed to Pradesh Congress Committee chief Manikrao Thakre, is said to have strongly objected to Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan’s style of functioning.

NCP sources said no coordination committee meeting in Maharashtra has been held ever since Mr Chavan became chief minister. The NCP ministers at the Centre — Sharad Pawar and Praful Patel — have stopped attending Cabinet meetings since Mr Pawar drew Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s attention to these issues in the last week.

“Pawar met Dr Manmohan Singh and Soniaji but after that there is no forward movement or communication,” said a NCP leader in reply to a question here on Tuesday.

“We are a responsible party and it would not behove the stature of a leader like Pawar to be absent from two successive Cabinet meetings,” he said, suggesting that Mr Pawar would like to end the suspense about his resignation. “Therefore our deadline ends on Wednesday,” he said ahead of Thursday’s Cabinet meeting.

Meanwhile, the Congress on Tuesday indicated forward movement in removing irritants in ties with the NCP.

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