Cong rides roughshod over allies.WITH each new election victory, the arrogance of the ruling Congress grows, but now it seems to be spiraling out of control. Its latest victim is Mamata Banerjee who is livid livid /liv·id/ (liv´id) discolored, as from a contusion or bruise; black and blue. liv·id adj. after the Centre rejected her demand that the army be deployed in Lalgarh to tackle the Maoists. Those who have allied with her in the past know that hell hath no fury like a Mamata scorned. But the Congress has no such worries and there is clearly a design in the manner it treats her. That Mamata wants to become the next West Bengal chief minister is no secret and it now appears that the Congress will go to any extent to scuttle her plans. This seems to be a rerun re·run n. The act or an instance of rebroadcasting a recorded movie or a recorded television performance. tr.v. re·ran , re·run, re·run·ning, re·runs To present a rerun of. of its relations with other powerful allies like the NCP (1) (Network Control Program) See SNA and network control program. (2) (NetWare Core Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in a NetWare network. and the DMK DMK Denmark DMK Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (political party in the state of Tamil Nadu, India) DMK Dystrophia Myotonica Kinase DMK Deluxe Mounting Kit (CB radio) DMK Dynamic Management Kit in recent weeks. Far from accepting Sharad Pawar's role in the Congress- NCP alliance's remarkable victory, the Congress is still haggling over portfolios leaving the formation of the new government in a limbo. It now wants the home and finance portfolios held by the NCP in the last government, so that it can threaten the partner when the opportunity arises. That's precisely what it did last week when it ordered the CBI CBI abbr. cumulative book index CBI Confederation of British Industry CBI n abbr (= Confederation of British Industry) → C.E.O.E. to raid the offices of the Telecom ministry headed by the DMK's A Raja. The big partners in the UPA (Ultra Port Architecture) A high-speed interconnect between the CPU and memory from Sun. It uses a packet-switched crossbar architecture that can transfer more than 100 MBytes/sec. like the NCP, DMK and Trinamool want to know why the UPA coordination committee doesn't meet at all though Sonia Gandhi continues to head it. If the Congress carries on with such brinkmanship brink·man·ship also brinks·man·ship n. The practice, especially in international politics, of seeking advantage by creating the impression that one is willing and able to push a highly dangerous situation to the limit rather than concede. , don't be surprised if the big partners form a bloc within the alliance. More parties may then be prompted to join. Farooq Abdullah's National Congress and Samajawadi Party, the latter not in the government but a party whose 23 MPs are crucial to the government's survival. Between them, these parties have about 75 MPs and should they begin to flex muscles, the UPA which technically is in a minority -- it's strength is 263, nine short of a simple majority -- could be in trouble. Copyright 2009 India Today Group. All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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