Cong harvested BSP chief’s ire against BJP, PM rang Mulayam

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Ravish Tiwari: New Delhi, Dec 07 2012, 01:34 IST

A late-evening meeting between Parliamentary Affairs minister Kamal Nath and BSP general secretary S C Mishra, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s phone call to SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on the eve of the debate in the Rajya Sabha on allowing FDI in multi-brand retail, virtually ensured the upper hand for the government against the opposition motion to defeat the policy decision.

The outcome of the government’s moves was evident Thursday with BSP chief Mayawati launching a frontal attack on the BJP for hinting that her party’s stand to walk out in the Lok Sabha and save the government was linked to the CBI cases against her.

While Mayawati went on to declare that her party would vote with the government on the motion in the upper house, the SP indicated that it would again walk out like it did in the Lok Sabha.

“The remarks that I got to read indicated their shallowness, pettiness and cheap mentality,” Mayawati said referring to comments by leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, Wednesday.

The BSP chief cited Swaraj’s barbs for her decision to go one step further in the Rajya Sabha and vote with the government.

Sources said that Mayawati had been seething over Swaraj’s remarks and sensing an opportunity, the Congress reached out to her. Kamal Nath is said to have explained to Mishra to not treat the vote as only to do with FDI but as a vote against BJP. He is also learnt to have stressed that a victory for

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Cong harvested BSP chief’s ire against BJP, PM rang Mulayam

girish c k | 07-Dec-2012Reply | Forward

Now, we can expect another Gandhi to come and redeem us, may be in 23rd or 24th Century.Meanwhile, there will be many more East India companies, fights among themselves, taking over of one state after another,struggles for independence, arrival of a second Gandhi, redemption... No wonder, History repeats itself. Hey Bhagwan, eh sab teri "Maya" ki vajah se!

cASTE,rELGION IN pOLTICS

VINAY SWARUP | 07-Dec-2012Reply | Forward

SP,BSP r very bad jockers for Indian poltics.In the name of secularisim(Both r not secular) are downing the ation where India will be never erase castesim,religion from those r totally dependent on SC,ST,OBC ets by saking the bread so that all congress,and allies remain in power for comfortable life.A day will ome all these parties will be extinct like a DINASOUR.

Maya,Mamata,Mulayam and the mess

Jitendra Desai | 07-Dec-2012Reply | Forward

Congress in trying to be street smart is playing with fire This is not the way to conduct the proceedings in the Parliament.One day a party is made to walk out.next day, same party is asked to vote with the government.Today it is SP's turn to feel slighted.Tomorrow it would be Maya or some one else.