No threat to the UPA government's stability: Sonia Gandhi
merisarkar news service
New Delhi, March 09, 2010
No threat to UPA Govt's stability: Sonia Gandhi
Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi has expressed confidence in the stability of UPA government after the passage of historic women's reservation bill in the Rajya Sabha which saw TMC abstaining from the vote.
"I think so. One can never tell. I am not an astrologer. I wish our former partners remained with us," Sonia Gandhi told reporters in New Delhi.
She was asked if she was confident about the stability of the government in the wake of threats by SP and RJD of withdrawal of their support to the UPA government after the passage of the bill in the present form.
However, in an interview to a news channel Sonia Gandhi did not provide a time frame for moving of the bill in the lower house.
She expressed surprise over Mamata Banerjee's decision to ask her party members to abstain from the vote.
She said, "Mamata Banerjee was quite enthusiastic. I'm told by some one who was sitting next to her in the cabinet meeting that when the proposal was moved for the cabinet's consideration Mamata stood up to welcome it. That's why I quite don't understand her today’s decision."
