Brushing aside the allegations that the party has withdrawn the "No Confidence Motion" against the UPA government, YSR Congress has said that detractors have been deliberately distorting facts to gain political mileage.
"At no point of time did we withdraw the No Confidence Motion against the UPA government. We have given notice on 7 of the 8 working days of Parliament and when the Lok Pal Bill was to be discussed, we told the Speaker to post our notice for the next day but the House was adjourned sine die after passing the Bill," party senior leader Dr. M V Mysoora Reddy told reporters here on Friday.
"We have given the notice only to show to the world that members of the Congress itself have no confidence on their own party. We wanted to highlight that point, and extended support by giving the notice on all the days, despite the busy schedule of our party president, Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, who had been meeting leaders of all regional and national parties to muster support for the cause of a united state and explaining the need to amend article 3 which is being misused by the Centre," he added.
Mysoora added, "The 6 Congress MPs and TDP MPs were not sincere in their effort to get the No Confidence Motion admitted, as they failed to gather support of 50 MPs on any given day to enable the Speaker to grant leave for the motion."
"TDP and others alleging that we have withdrawn the No Confidence Motion is totally baseless and it is the Congress MPs and their TDP counterparts who lacked sincerity, as they only wanted to show off by rushing to the podium and resorting to slogan shouting without any floor coordination and getting the required number to get the motion admitted," he pointed out.
"To put the record straight, we did not withdraw the No Confidence Motion. When the Lok Pal Bill was to be discussed we asked the Chair to take it up the next day but the House was adjourned. The No Confidence Motion was moved by dissident Congress members and we supported it to expose the double standards of the party," he said. (INN)