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HVK Archives: Moopanar mopes : says he will stay out
Moopanar mopes : says he will stay out - The Hindu
Posted By Ashok V Chowgule (ashokvc@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in)
Mon, 21 Apr 97 17:25:55 EDT
> Title : Moopanar mopes : says he will stay out
> Author : Nabin Sinha
> Publication : The Observer
> Date : April 21, 1997
>
> The Tamil Maanila Congress on Sunday rejected requests from the United
Front
> constituents to reconsider its stand and reiterated that it would extend
> support to the new United Front Government headed by Mr I K Gujral.
>
> While West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu had a telephonic talk with TMC
> supremo G K Moopanar in the morning, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK
> President M Karunanidhi also made all possible efforts to persuade Mr
> Moopanar and his colleagues to join the new UF Government.
>
> Mr Karunanidhi told newsmen that "TMC has not agreed so, far. I hope I will
> be able to persuade them. Their participation is very important for
stability
> and secularism."
>
> TMC MP R Dhanushodi Athithan told The Observer of Business and Politics on
> Sunday that "the statement of Forward Bloc MP Chitta Basu that the TMC is
> untrustworthy has hurt our feeling. We feel insulted."
>
> He claimed that Mr Moopanar was never in the race. "Our decision is final
and
> we will stick to that," he said. He, however, added that "TMC will neither
> support the Congress nor join it."
>
> Meanwhile, the TMC on Sunday ruled out reconsideration of its decision to
> Pull out of the new UF Government and took a pot-shot at those
participating
> in it, saying the TMC would prove itself more duty-conscious than those
> inside the Government. The party also disapproved of a "section" of the UF
> which, it said, had suspected its "political morality and loyalty" to the
> coalition.
>
> "No reconsideration," TMC chief G K Moopanar shot back at reporters after a
> three-hour-long deliberation of the TMC parliamentary party and a meeting
> with UF convenor N Chandrababu Naidu.
>
> Asked if he would accept the post of Deputy Prime Minister, if offered, Mr
> Moopanar said, "I am not deputy Prime Minister material. "
>
> A four-page statement issued by the TMC parliamentary party after the
meeting
> said that the party was at a loss to know why a section of the UF did not
> like Mr Moopanar as the Front leader.
>
> Referring to the reasons given for disfavouring Mr Moopanar, including that
> he was a "Congress sympathiser" and that handing over leadership to him
> amounted to giving it to the Congress, the TMC said Mr Moopanar was not an
> individual but the leader of an organisation with 50 lakh members,
> representing the voice of over five crore self-respecting Tamils.
>
> The MPs said that despite the TMC's performance in securing a good image
for
> the government, the fact that its loyalty and political morality were
> questioned by a section had led it to come to the conclusion that TMC did
not
> need to participate in the Government.
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