SP to support notrust vote against NDA government

  • | Friday | 20th July, 2018

But, by abstaining from voting, the party leadership does not want to rock the fragile anti-BJP alliance for the 2019 general elections. LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party is all set to vote in support of the no-confidence motion against the NDA government in parliament on Friday.According to sources, the party was getting feelers from the ruling BJP to abstain from the voting as it has done on many occasions in the past. He is determined to challenge the BJP and is trying his best to form a coalition with BSP and Congress for 2019 elections,”explained a senior party functionary. The lone RLD MP would also against the Modi government.Highly placed sources in SP told TOI that SP leaders in Delhi were approached by ruling party’s interlocutors for not supporting the motion on Friday and should abstain from voting.“But the national president Akhilesh Yadav has sounded the seven MPs of the party to vote against the NDA government,” said a senior SP leader.SP has been quite consistent in making flip-flops at the time of floor tests in the past. In 1996, when then Congress president Sonia Gandhi had asked for SP’s support to cobble together the 272 MPs required to form the government, the then party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav first showed his willingness and then backd out.“At that time, Mulayam Singh Yadav was the leader, now Akhilesh holds the reins.

LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party is all set to vote in support of the no-confidence motion against the NDA government in parliament on Friday.According to sources, the party was getting feelers from the ruling BJP to abstain from the voting as it has done on many occasions in the past. But, by abstaining from voting, the party leadership does not want to rock the fragile anti-BJP alliance for the 2019 general elections. The lone RLD MP would also against the Modi government.Highly placed sources in SP told TOI that SP leaders in Delhi were approached by ruling party’s interlocutors for not supporting the motion on Friday and should abstain from voting.“But the national president Akhilesh Yadav has sounded the seven MPs of the party to vote against the NDA government,” said a senior SP leader.SP has been quite consistent in making flip-flops at the time of floor tests in the past. In 1996, when then Congress president Sonia Gandhi had asked for SP’s support to cobble together the 272 MPs required to form the government, the then party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav first showed his willingness and then backd out.“At that time, Mulayam Singh Yadav was the leader, now Akhilesh holds the reins. He is determined to challenge the BJP and is trying his best to form a coalition with BSP and Congress for 2019 elections,”explained a senior party functionary. Akhilesh is on a two- day tour of Madhya Pradesh , where he had a series of meetings with leaders of his party and also met young leader from Gujarat Hardik Patel to work out a plan to fight against the BJP in 2019 general elections.Earlier, Patel had a meeting with RJD leader Tejaswi Yadav in Bihar

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