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Congress meets after DMK pullout; Chidambaram
says govt stable
Tuesday March 19, 2013 12:40:47 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Congress core group met here Tuesday after the DMK quit the
United Progressive Alliance (UPA) over the Sri Lanka issue.
The group includes UPA chief Sonia Gandhi, Congress in charge of
Tamil Nadu Ghulam Nabi Azad, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram,
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath and Home Minister
Sushilkumar Shinde.
Meanwhile, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said the Congress-led
UPA government is stable and enjoys majority support in parliament
despite the DMK's exit.
"The government is stable, the government enjoys majority in the
Lok Sabha," he told the media here after DMK chief M. Karunanidhi
announced his party was pulling out of the UPA over the Sri Lanka
issue.
"The government is stable and will continue," he added.
The DMK quit the UPA and its government Tuesday voicing dismay
over India's stand over Sri Lanka at the UNHRC.
DMK chief M. Karunanidhi announced that his party could not accept
New Delhi's bid to bail out Sri Lanka which faces charges of
committing human rights abuses on the Tamil community.
"Continuing in this government will be an injustice to the Sri
Lankan Tamils," the former Tamil Nadu chief minister told the
media. The DMK has 18 members in the Lok Sabha and five ministers
in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's council of ministers.
Karunanidhi said the UPA government had not only refused to
consider the DMK's views on the US-sponsored resolution against
Sri Lanka at the UNHRC but had quietly watered it down.
He also ruled out extending outside legislative support to the UPA,
in which the DMK was the largest constituent after the Congress.
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