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NDA for multi-pronged attack on UPA
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ASIANAGE on 17 July, 2008 02:47:07
 
By OUR CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
July 17: Keeping the issue of the Indo-US civil nuclear energy deal central,
the NDA will launch a multi-pronged attack on the UPA government highlighting
its failure on issues like price rise, economy, agriculture and governance
during the trust vote on July 22.
"The issues of debate will be a complete failure of the UPA leadership, a
national drift in the administration, and the anti-people policies which led to
price rise and agricultural crisis in the country. All this has left the nation
exasperated," said BJP spokesman Arun Jaitley after a meeting of NDA chief
ministers on Thursday.
Barring Karnataka CM B.S. Yeddyurappa and Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje, who had
engagements back home, all the NDA CMs took part in the meeting, which was
called to take stock of the political situation developing ahead of the crucial
UPA confidence motion on July 22.
Sounding confident that the NDA will be able to manage the numbers in order to
defeat the confidence motion during the special session of Lok Sabha, Mr Jaitley
said the UPA government was seemingly slipping on this count.
"The NDA opponents too will vote against the government. The chief ministers
felt the government is having difficulty in managing the numbers," he said when
asked the exact numbers in the NDA kitty.
In this line, he also expressed hope that despite not issuing a whip to its 8
MPs, the SAD would vote with the NDA on the D-Day. "When a senior leader like
P.S. Badal has given an assurance there is no need for further clarification,"
he said.
Observing that the reported horsetrading going on to win over the support of
MPs as very unfortunate, Mr Jaitley charged that the PMO and the government have
been reduced to a bargaining counter.
To give a final push to their strategy, all the NDA MPs will meet in the
Parliament annex on July 22, added Mr Jaitley.
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NLP MP to go against UPA
BY OUR CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
July 17: President of National Loktantrik Party Arshan Khan said the lone
Member of Parliament of his party Baleshwar Yadav will vote against the United
Progressive Alliance government during the special session of Lok Sabha on July
22.
The National Loktantrik Party, which has a mostly Muslim base, has been
providing support from outside to the United Progressive Alliance government.