Congress withdraws support from Mamata
government, quits ministry
Saturday September 22, 2012 11:23:44 PM,
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As the Trinamool Congress went ahead and withdrew support to the UPA in
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Kolkata: Completing
the divorce formalities with the Trinamool Congress, the Congress
Saturday withdrew support from West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee
government after its six ministers handed over their resignation
to the chief minister.
All the Congress ministers - two cabinet-rank and four ministers
of state - went in a body to Banerjee's chamber at the state
secretariat, Writers' Buildings, here and handed over their
resignation to the chief minister a little after 5 p.m.
"As per the directive of the party, the high command and the state
Congress we have submitted our resignation to the chief minister,"
said party leader Manas Bhunia, who held portfolios of micro,
medium and small enterprises, textiles and irrigation and
Waterways minister in the cabinet.
Abu Hena, holding charge of food processing and fisheries, was the
other cabinet-rank minister from the Congress.
Later, the ministers along with state Congress president Pradip
Bhattacharya and legislative party leader Mohammad Sohrab, went to
the Raj Bhavan and communicated to Governor M.K. Naryanan their
decision to withdraw support from the Banerjee government.
The Congress' exercise came a day after a similar act was
performed by the Trinamool Congress in New Delhi.
The Trinamool formally pulled out of the United Progressive
Alliance and its six union ministers gave their resignation
letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday in protest against
the hike in diesel price, allowing FDI in multi-brand retail trade
and putting a cap on subsidised cooking gas cylinders.
The Congress was the junior partner in the Trinamool-led regime in
West Bengal since it took charge 16 months ago in May, 2011 after
ending the 34-year rule of the Left Front.
The withdrawal of support will not have any impact on the
16-month-old Banerjee government as her party has a comfortable
majority in the 294-seat state assembly.
The Congress has 42 members, two more than the Communist Party of
India-Marxist's 40, and could stake claim for the post of leader
of opposition.
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