NEW DELHI: While adopting a carrot and stick policy to keep its flock together to meet the challenge of dissident MP. P. Rangarajan Kumaramangalam’s cut motions in the current session of Parliament, the Congress leadership has started wooing other parties also.
The Prime Minister, P.V.Narasimha Rao, has sent missives to the Left parties as well as the AIADMK and others to seek their help in meeting the challenge to his government posed by the BJP with the help of some dissidents within the Congress.
The party fire-fighters are also selectively meeting MPs from Janata Dal, Samata Party and even the BJP in the hope that some of them might directly or indirectly lend a helping hand to the Rao Government at this critical juncture
Recent visit of the Home Minister. S.B. Chavan, to Madras followed by visits by some senior Officials of the PMO has spurred speculation that Rao was keen not to antagonize the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms.Jayalalitha. whose party has 12 MPs in the Lok Sabha.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 21, 1995
