The Left taking stern action ended the long running drama Tuesday by announcing its withdrawal of support from the UPA government in the wake of the government decision to go ahead with the IAEA and thus the Indo-US nuclear deal.
Tomorrow all the four Left parties would meet President Pratibha Patil and submit the “letter of withdrawal” formally.
The decision was taken at the meeting of the Left's coordination committee held at the party's headquarter. All the four heads of the Left-Prakash Karat of CPM, A B Bardhan of CPI, Debabrata Viswas of Forward Block and the T J Chandrachoodan of RSP were present in the meeting.
Karat said the letter of “withdrawal of support” has been sent to the External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee in which the reason for the pulling support has been mentioned as after the Prime Minister's declaration from Japan to go with IAEA at any cost has left no option before the party except to pull support.
"In view of the PM's announcement, the time has come to withdraw our support," Karat said, reading out a letter sent by Left parties to External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
In the letter the Left parties also mentioned that there is no use of holding UPA-Left coordination committee meeting scheduled on July 10.
Mr. Karat pointing out the discussions, which was taken in the sixth meeting of the UPA-Left Coordination Committee on the deal last year, where it was decided that the government will make available the text of the safeguards agreement negotiated with the IAEA Secretariat to the Committee, but till date no such draft has been provided to the Left parties. He said, without the text, the Committee cannot come to any findings and therefore there is no need for further meeting of the UPA-Left Committee.
Soon after the Left's decision of withdrawing support, the Samajwadi Party came for rescue of the government. The party held a press conference and the party head Mulayam Singh vowed “unconditional support to the government.” Mr. Yadav said, “At his parliamentary party meeting, they have decided that his party will give unconditional support to the government.”
He also said that his party supports the nuclear deal, and would mobilise its members to help people in eradicating their apprehension on the deal and tell them its benefits.
Few hours after the Left parites' expected decision of withdrawal of support to the government in the first half of day on Tuesday, the chief Opposition Party, BJP has asked the Prime Minister to seek vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha.
The National president of the Bhartiya Janata Party dubbed the UPA-Left alliance as “unnatural” and said the disintegration of the present ruling coalition government was quite obvious. In fact, the “divorce” should have been quite early. “Both Congress and Left have lost credibility. Now the government is in minority and the Prime Minister should seek a Vote of Confidence,” said Rajnath Singh.
The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has called an emergency meeting of all its constituents tomorrow comprising all its chief ministers tomorrow for a meeting here.
Meanwhile, the Congress leaders congregated at UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's residence and expressed firm hope that the government was stable and it would not face any trouble in passing the floor test.
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