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No alliance with Mamata in near future:
Congress
Tuesday October 16, 2012 07:55:15 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: After their
recent divorce, the Congress Tuesday said there was no possibility
of aligning again with the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress
in the near future.
"With so much of hostility shown by her (Banerjee) and the way she
has been repeatedly attacking the prime minister, I do not think
there is any possibility of Mamataji coming back to the Congress
alliance in the near future," Congress spokesperson Shakeel Ahmad
said here.
Banerjee's Trinamool last month withdrew support from the
Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government after it
initiated economic reforms including allowing overseas investment
in retail.
Ahmad also exuded confidence of surviving a parliamentary
no-confidence motion which both the Trinamool and the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) have been mulling.
"We have 256 members of our own and have the support of 50 more
from various parties. So, we are not at all worried because the
magic figure is 275 and we have at least 306 members," said Ahmad,
party general secretary in charge of West Bengal.
"In case a no-confidence motion is brought either by the Trinamool
or the BJP, the other will have to support. This will bring to the
fore the dual polity of Mamataji who talks secular but supports a
communal party," said Ahmad.
He also mocked at political parties who have been proposing the
formation of a third front as opposed to the ruling Congress and
the opposition BJP.
"A third front cannot be a reality. Because most of the leaders
who are talking about the front are too ambitious and anyone
becoming a leader of the ambitious lot is difficult," quipped
Ahmad.
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