NEW DELHI: In a major initiative to end the impasse over the Uttar Pradesh Congress unit’s demand for dismissal of the Mulayam Singh Yadav Government, the Prime Minister, P.V. Narasimha Rao, last week interacted with the Congress leaders from the state’s hill areas and had a separate meeting with the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chief. N. D. Tiwari, The brief Rao-Tiwari interface following the Prime Minister’s meeting with the Uttarakhand delegation, marked a serious effort on the Congress president’s resignation protesting the delay by the Center in moving against Mulayam Singh Government If not a breakthrough in the continuing deadlock, the neon ore meeting, according to the party sources, at least arrested the slide in the deteriorating relationship between the Prime Minister the UP satrap. The Prime Minster, however, made it clear that he was not considering the dismissal of the UP Government The Constitution is above sentiments, he reportedly remarked.

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