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Congress yet to decide on joining new Gujarat govt
NEW DELHI. Oct 29: The Congress yesterday said the issue of party's participation in the new RJP government in Gujarat was "still open" and a decision on this would be taken after discussions with state party leaders and AICC observers. reports PTI.
Party assistant spokesman Ajit Jogi told reporters here the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Party had decided to set up a steering committee to coordinate between the two parties for smooth functioning of the government.
The committee would perform functions of the government in three areas: lay down policy guidelines, discuss and decide important administrative issues and ensure implementation of policies and programmes of the Congress as per the party manifesto.
Gujarat PCC president CD Pa tel and CLP leader Amarsingh Chaudhary would represent the Congress on the committee to begin with.
Replying to a question. Jogi said it was yet to be decided as to who would preside over the committee.
Asked what the Congress had
achieved by replacing Vaghela with another RJP leader, he defended the new arrangement saying qualitatively there has been a world of difference.'
Another report adds: Defence Minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) president Mulayam Singh Yadav, yesterday ruled out the possibility of his party pulling out of the United Front.
"My party will not sever relation with the United Front as it wants to strengthen the secular forces in the country," Yadav told reporters in Patna.
He. however, said he would raise his party's view on the Uttar Pradesh issue at the UF meeting today.
Yadav was replying to queries of mediamen on recent developments in Uttar Pradesh and subsequent reversal of the United Front government's decision on imposing president s rule in the state before returning to New Delhi after his one-day tour of Bihar.
He also ruled out the possibility of his party entering into an alliance with Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh in the near future.
There is no question of my
party having an understanding with BSP. It is a party which cannot be trusted." the SP pres-ident said.
Asked whether his party would forge an alliance with Congress. Yadav said. "There has been on talks between us in this connection so far."
Meanwhile, the United Front convenor and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minster N Chandrababu Naidu yesterday favoured presidential form of government in the country as "the present system was leading to political instability and horse-trading."
Addressing an extended meeting of Telugu Desam executives in Hyderabad, Naidu called for a thorough national debate on the issue.
There would be no scope for defections and splits in the presidential system." he said
Lambasting Congress and BJP for "engineering defections in other parties to further their political ends." Naidu said such unscrupulous methods were weakening the democracy
■ Referring to Article 356, the TDP president said his party was opposed to invoking it to dismiss state governments.