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Temporary problems with allies will be overcome: PM
Friday January 06, 2012 10:55:05 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: With
tensions escalating with ruling UPA's key alliance partner
Trinamool Congress, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday hoped
that "temporary problems" with allies will be overcome with
"determination."
"We have our problems but I am confident that if we have the will
and determination, we will overcome these temporary problems," he
said at a joint press interaction with Trinidad and Tobago Prime
Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, who is on a 10-day visit to
India.
He, however, did not name the Trinamool, which forms the second
largest United Progressive Alliance (UPA) partner with 19 MPs.
He was asked whether the UPA government's development agenda was
being affected as its coalition partners appeared to create
problems for them.
"Life would not be worth living if it were not beset with one
problem or the other. We are a large country with great complexity
and great diversity," he told reporters.
The Congress-Trinamool ties have remained uneasy since Banerjee
joined the UPA after the 2009 Lok Sabha election.
She has bitterly opposed and blocked some of the key policies and
bills of the UPA government, including the anti-corruption Lokpal
bill.
Banerjee is also mainly responsible for the central government's
backtracking on the foreign direct investment plan in retail
sector after she raised a red flag against the key reform measure.
She has vowed to keep opposing the Lokayukta provision in the
Lokpal legislation which she fears will intrude into the autonomy
of the states.
In West Bengal too, the ruling alliance of Trinamool and Congress
is beset with problems. Trinamool boss and state Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee has accused the central government and the Left of
working together in attacking her partymen.
Her party had handed the Left a humiliating defeat in Bengal last
year.
The current provocation for the uneasy ties between the two
partners was the West Bengal government's proposal to rename a
building named after late prime minister Indira Gandhi. Banerjee
wants the Kolkata-based Indira Bhavan - where Indira Gandhi stayed
in 1972 - to be named after rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.
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