Left has no plans to bring motion on disinvestment Monday, July 25 2005 19:01 Hrs (IST) - World Time -
New Delhi:
The Left parties, rocked in a wrangle with the Congress led coalition in the Center on the Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (BHEL) issue, has no plans to bring any motion on the disinvestment in the current session of Parliament.
The key outside supporters of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government today
also ridiculed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)led Nationalist Democratic Alliance (NDA's) move to bring a censure motion against the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his certain controversial remarks during his address at Oxford University in the UK, Communist Party of India Marxist (CPM) leader Nilotpal Basu and Basudeb Acharya told reporters.
"We have articulated our concern on the BHEL issue to the highest leadership of UPA. We expect an amicable settlement," Basu said, adding that the disinvestment proposal was a deviation from the Common Minimum Programme (CMP)of UPA.
Asked by what time they expected settlement, he said, "We do not believe in deadlines.If they go in reverse direction, then you will see our response. As long as they follow CMP, we do not have any problems."
Basu said the BJP-led opposition was 'least qualified' to bring such a motion as the recent development showed the 'control' of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) over the
saffron party.
"They had nothing to do with freedom struggle and they are the least qualified," the CPM leader said.
He also said the Left was critical of certain observation made by the Prime Minister at Oxford about which 'we will state our position very clearly on the floor of Parliament but
we are not going to oblige them (BJP).'