Asserting that the UPA government has lost its moral right to continue, Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh on Wednesday demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh step down and seek a fresh mandate.
“Before accepting the resignation of Trinamool Congres ministers, the Prime Minister should step down and seek a fresh mandate on whether the country is permitting his policies or not,” the MP said in a tweet.
Opposing what he described as “anti-people policies”, he said, “Congress should remember it it is not their private government. They have no moral right to continue with those policies.”
Trinamool Congress on Tuesday withdrew its support from the UPA and decided to formally pull out its ministers from the Union government on Friday, leaving a window open for the Union government to reconsider its decisions in the meantime.
The second biggest constituent of the UPA with 19 members in Lok Sabha said the party could reconsider its stand if the government rolls back its decisions on FDI, raised the cap on subsidised LPG from six to 12 cylinders besides reducing diesel hike from Rs 5 by Rs 3 or Rs 4.
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The Prime Minister is adamant about his new economic reform measures because he wants to re-establish his reputation as a great economic reformer before the widely expected defeat of the Congress in 2014 or in a mid-term election. His party is not realizing this and is going along with him in his reform efforts which are almost certain to cut short the life of the UPA-2 government with no prospect of winning a mid- term election because of the various corruption scams and the said unpopular economic reforms.
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