rediff.com
News APP

NewsApp (Free)

Read news as it happens
Download NewsApp

Available on  gplay

Rediff.com  » News » Mamata's ministers say mentally ready to quit UPA
This article was first published 12 years ago

Mamata's ministers say mentally ready to quit UPA

Last updated on: June 18, 2012 08:38 IST

Image: Trinamool Congress chife Mamata Banerjee

A combative Trinamool Congress sent a terse message to the Congress on Monday night saying it was "mentally prepared to quit" the United Progressive Alliance government and should not be given any "indirect threat".

"Trinamool ministers are mentally prepared to resign from the central government if the Congress thinks we are a burden or if Mamata Banerjee instructs them to do so. We will not stay by force. We should not be given any indirect threat," leader of the TMC parliamentary party in the Lok Sabha Sudip Bandopadhyay told the media in Kolkata.

...

Mamata's ministers say mentally ready to quit UPA

Image: TMC parliamentary party in the Lok Sabha Sudip Bandopadhyay

"If Trinamool Congress leaves the UPA on its own, it will give a wrong message to the people that it wanted to topple the UPA government," a party leader quoted Banerjee as having said at a crucial meeting of party members of Parliament and members of Legislative Assembly shortly after A P J Abdul Kalam announced his decision to opt out of the presidential race.

Briefing newsmen about the nearly two-hour meeting, leader of the parliamentary party, Bandopadhyay, however, said reports that party MPs and union ministers submitting letters of resignation to the party supremo were "totally baseless."

Mamata's ministers say mentally ready to quit UPA

Image: UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and PM Manmohan Singh

"We have not tendered our resignation letters anywhere, neither to the party supremo nor to the government. Our leader Mamata Banerjee has categorically said that we do not want to make this government weak," Bandopadhyay said.

"It is an ugly and motivated report. It will not take us a second's time to resign from the UPA government. If Mamata directs, Railway minister Mukul Roy and the other six ministers of state would resign."


TOP photo features of the week


...

Tags: PHOTO , MORE , TOP
© Copyright 2024 PTI. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of PTI content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent.