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Congress president Sitaram Kesri, while maintaining that he fully
agreed with Home Minister Indrajit Gupta's view that the situation
in Uttar Pradesh was bad, said his Party would decide its stand in
the Parliament on the issue on Wednesday.
Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, Kesri said both
Governor Romesh Bhandari and Home Minister were engaged in a cold
war.
Kesri said he was aware of various tactics being adopted by the
United Front for its survival and added that he did not want to
disclose them now.
Replying to questions, Kesri also said it was too early to say
whether or not the Congress party would move cut motions on the
budget proposals.
However, he said the actions of the United Front were actually
weakening the secular forces.
The Congress president once again indicated that his party's
support to the Government could not be taken for granted. If the
United Front continued to humiliate the Congress, the party would
be forced to review its support to the Government.
However, Kesri said the party would not try to form an alternate
government under the present framework.
"We would rather like to face the electorate", he said. Kesri had
also sounded a warning against the United Front Government on
Monday in a public meeting here saying that the Government was on
the shoulders of the Congress and if it dropped the Government
would go to hell.
Kesri said the party continued to offer its support to the UF
Government not because of its weakness but to protect the interests
of the people. The Government was run by a motely crowd of 13
parties and it was the responsibility of the Congress to ensure
that the national interest was not jeoparadised.
When asked about the budget presented by P Chidambaram, Kesri said
the budget proposals would only help the upper middle class.
The economic policy of the Congress was intended to safeguard the
interests of all sections of the people, particularly the
downtrodden, he added.
Regarding the electoral defeats suffered by the party recently,
Kesri said while his party had suffered major setbacks in Punjab it
had fared well in the district parishad elections in Maharashtra
and Orissa.
Kesri, on Monday night, had blamed the failure by the party to
protect the Babri Mosque for the electoral debacles of the
Congress.
He said that the mosque demolition was an attack on the Congress.
Kesri had arrived here in connection with a vehicle rally
undertaken by State Congress president Vayalar Ravi.
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