The Hindu : 'Governor must complete legal formalities'

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Monday, Apr 29, 2002

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'Governor must complete legal formalities'

By Our Special Correspondent

LUCKNOW APRIL 28. The Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party president, Kalraj Mishra, on his return here from New Delhi, told newspersons that Government formation in the State might still be delayed by three or four days.

The Governor, Vishnu Kant Shastri, would have to complete certain legal and technical formalities before swearing in the new Ministry and it would take some time.

Ms. Mayawati might, however, initiate the process by calling on the Governor tomorrow to stake her claim, he said. Mr. Mishra said he had started consultations with his colleagues in the BJP about Government formation.

Details about the coalition Government to be headed by Ms. Mayawati would be finalised in the next few days.

Motilal Vora, Congress leader in-charge of U.P. affairs, said the BJP-BSP Government to be installed in the State would not last long. This was an alliance "bereft of any principles".

The two parties forming a coalition to rule the State had contradictory ideologies and their "marriage of convenience" was expected to break sooner than later, he said.

Mr. Vora denied the Samajwadi Party's allegation that the Congress had helped in the formation of the BJP-BSP coalition in U.P. The Congress had never created hurdles on the path of the SP. If that party had enough MLAs to form the Government, the Congress would have readily come forward to help it, he added.

Tiwari is CLP leader

Meanwhile, the State Congress today unanimously elected Pramod Tiwari as the leader of its Legislature group. This would be Mr. Tiwari's fourth term as CLP leader.The election had been delayed as uncertainty continued about the formation of the next Government in the State.

One group in the party was apprehensive of the intentions of Mr. Tiwari and felt that he could defy the party line on the question of the Congress support to the new Government. Now, with the decks being cleared for the formation of a BJP-BSP Government, all such apprehensions have been removed.

UNI reports:

Mr. Vora told presspersons that Mr. Tiwari was elected by "consensus" in the presence of 22 of the 25 party MLAs.

"Louis Khurshid, Dinesh Singh and Wajid Ali Khan could not attend the meeting, but they sent letters supporting Mr. Tiwari," Mr. Vora said.

While Jagdambika Pal proposed the name of Mr. Tiwari, Ram Naresh Yadav seconded it.

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