New Delhi, May 19
In a sudden development, the 12-member Samata Party late tonight said that it would hold an emergency meeting on Monday of its national executive committee to reconsider its participation in the NDA government at the Centre.
Announcing this in a press note, Party General Secretary Shambhu Srivastawa, however, did not give any reason for the move.
Party sources, however, said that the move comes in the wake of what Samata Party sees as an attempt by BJP MLAs in Manipur to bring down the Samata Party-led People’s Front Government in the state.
Mr Srivastawa told PTI that the party would hold the national executive meeting on May 21, the day on which Manipur Chief Minister Radhabinod Koijam is to seek a vote of confidence in the state assembly.
The three-month old Koijam Ministry plunged into crisis after the Manipur state Congress Party split and a new outfit supported by the BJP, which, in turn, wanted the Chief Minister’s post.
However, the Samata Party took strong exception to two key NDA partners fighting each other saying it did not augur well for coalition politics.
Sources said in case the BJP toppled the Samata-led ministry in Manipur, the Samata Party in a retaliatory action might withdraw support to the BJP Government of Mr Babulal Marandi in Jharkhand.
PTI
