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Congress-SP to form coordination committee for Lok Sabha polls
Kushal Jeena August 5, 2008
New Delhi, The Congress and the Samajwadi Party appeared to have decided to put in place a coordination committee that would take a call on the entire gamut of relations between the two parties including seat sharing for general elections and the functioning of the government.
A final decision in this regard would be taken on Wednesday when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would hold discussions with the SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and his deputy Amar Singh. According to a senior SP leader the coordination committee, which has been offered to be set up by the SP would be patterned after one that UPA had constituted for doing business with the Left parties.
Wednesday's top-level meeting is taking place as the two sides have almost completed the ground work laid for the coordination committee. Yadav and Singh would give final touch to the committee tomorrow. They will also decide the other members of the committee, which would be headed by Singh himself.
The new coordination committee will be an exclusive one between the two parties and would discuss and suggest from time to time changes and additions in the government's policy framework. No constituent of the ruling United Progressive Alliance has been included in the coordination committee. Besides, SP would also be free to form similar committee for political alliances with the UPA allies who has backward and dalit vote bases.
The SP chief Yadav has also hinted that his party may enter into electoral alliances with the RJD of railway minister Lalu Yadav and LJP of chemical and fertilizers minister Ramvilas Paswan. These three powerful leaders had come together on Monday to take on BJP and its allies and to keep the ruling coalition united.
The two Yadav and one dalit strongmen have been persuaded to shun their differences and join hands by the none other than the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, whose party is desperately looking to revive its strength in the key northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. In these two states SP, RJD and LJP weakened the Congress after its traditional vote bank of Muslim, OBCs and dalits switched over to these regional parties.
A final decision in this regard would be taken on Wednesday when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would hold discussions with the SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and his deputy Amar Singh. According to a senior SP leader the coordination committee, which has been offered to be set up by the SP would be patterned after one that UPA had constituted for doing business with the Left parties.
Wednesday's top-level meeting is taking place as the two sides have almost completed the ground work laid for the coordination committee. Yadav and Singh would give final touch to the committee tomorrow. They will also decide the other members of the committee, which would be headed by Singh himself.
The new coordination committee will be an exclusive one between the two parties and would discuss and suggest from time to time changes and additions in the government's policy framework. No constituent of the ruling United Progressive Alliance has been included in the coordination committee. Besides, SP would also be free to form similar committee for political alliances with the UPA allies who has backward and dalit vote bases.
The SP chief Yadav has also hinted that his party may enter into electoral alliances with the RJD of railway minister Lalu Yadav and LJP of chemical and fertilizers minister Ramvilas Paswan. These three powerful leaders had come together on Monday to take on BJP and its allies and to keep the ruling coalition united.
The two Yadav and one dalit strongmen have been persuaded to shun their differences and join hands by the none other than the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, whose party is desperately looking to revive its strength in the key northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. In these two states SP, RJD and LJP weakened the Congress after its traditional vote bank of Muslim, OBCs and dalits switched over to these regional parties.
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