Sikkim leaders react on UPA trust vote victory
Posted by barunroy on July 25, 2008
FROM SIKKIM EXPRESS
GANGTOK, July 23: Political leaders from various parties have expressed their views on the UPA Government at the Centre winning the crucial trust vote yesterday. The Press Advisor to the Chief Minister, BB Gooroong today said that the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) party was happy that it supported the UPA. “Since we supported the UPA unconditionally whenever it was in trouble, we are optimistic that the Central Government would positively help us in fulfilling our political demands, especially in the reservation of Limboo-Tamang seats, increase of seats to 40 in the Sikkim Legislative Assembly and the Burman Committee Report” Mr Gooroong said.
The president of Sikkim Pradesh Congress Committee (SPCC), Nar Bahadur Bhandari said that winning the trust vote by a comfortable margin is a sign of great ability of the UPA. “It is unfortunate that BJP and Communist parties played nasty games to topple the UPA Government. It is sad for the opposition leader LK Advani to make allegations on the image of our Prime Minster Manmohan Singh,” Mr Bhandari said.
Asked to comment on the support of SDF to UPA, SPCC chief had this to say, “Pawan Chamling had supported UPA to free himself from the CBI. That is why his support was unconditional.”
He said that by supporting UPA, SDF Government cannot be optimistic about getting Limboo-Tamang seat reservation as there are no seats allocated for the LTS in the delimitation report prepared by the SDF. “Up to 2026, you cannot play with the delimitation report so how can the SDF provide seats for the LTs, he questioned.
Mr Bhandari further accused the SDF Government for politically betraying the LTs. The Sikkim State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has it own story on the trust vote. “UPA has won the trust vote only by numbers but they have defeated on the moral ground. The people of the country have witnessed that UPA tried to buy MPs,” said HR Pradhan, president, Sikkim State BJP.
Commenting on the UPA’s victory, Balaram Adhikari, Committee Secretary of Communist Party said that the nuclear deal was not in the favour of people, which made the Left Front withdraw their support. “We never take up anything which is bad for the common people. The fact that UPA tried to buy MPs during the trust vote itself shows their motive,” he added.
