| NEWSNOTES No, Prime Minister
The CPI(M) is obviously seeing the fall of the government as a victory of the people's wishes and the unrelenting pressure exerted by the party to see this government out. The West Bengal chief minister, Mr Jyoti Basu, and the CPI(M) General Secretary, Mr Harkishen Singh Surjeet, said that it is time for the Congress to stake a claim to form the government and that the party, as has been its declared policy, would support the government from outside. The CPI(M), however, does not see this as a lasting arrangement and has made it clear that elections would be held in another year under the caretaker government of the Congress or a coalition government.
Incidentally, this was the eighth confidence vote in the Lok Sabha, the earlier PMs being Charan Singh, V.P.Singh, Chandra Sekhar,P.V.Narasimha Rao,H.D.Deve Gowda, I.K.Gujral and Mr Vajpayee. Mr Vajpayee, at the end of his 13-day tenure as Prime Minister the first time around, had chosen to resign and did not take the confidence vote as he has done now. When he did take the confidence of the House on taking over as Prime Minister again on April 29 last year, there were 274 ``ayes'' to 261 ``noes''; obviously, as the result this time has shown, the Prime Minister has failed miserably to keep his flock together. The signal which goes out loud and clear is that the nation does not want the BJP to rule this country and its motley group of allies are not the stuff of good governance. The nation has to go in for polls but only when the situation stabilises and the economy is in a shape to allow this country to go in polls after some stable administration by the new government. |
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The ball
thus is now in the Congress court. It has now to decide the issue of Prime Ministership
and whether Ms Sonia Gandhi is ready to take on the mantle. Also, the Budget needs to be
passed by the Lok Sabha and any shifting in positions regarding major issues pertaining to
the Finance Bill could prove disastrous to the nation's economy.It is this instability
that the BJP is banking on and Prime Minister Vajpayee made it clear during his address in
Parliament that his party would not give way easily and threatened the nation with another
immediate elections if necessary. In fact, Union human resources development minister Dr
Murli Manohar Joshi said in Calcutta on Sunday that his party would come back to
power,``whether through or elections or reinstatement'' he was not in a position to say
though. Obviously, the BJP is back to its old game and the shameless exercise of
horsetrading that it indulged in during the run-up to the confidence vote is expected to
go till the time that the next government is in place. It is thus imperative on the part
of the President to make the equation clear and invite the Congress to form the next
government at the earliest. Otherwise, the more time that the BJP gets, the greater will
be the danger of having defeated this government on the floor of the House. The nation
cannot afford to lose time to allow the traders to make hay with MPs.