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UPA crisis Live: Mukul Roy calls for FDI vote in Parliament by puneetmafia on 21 September, 2012 - 08:00 PM
avatar puneetmafia UPA crisis Live: Mukul Roy calls for FDI vote in Parliament on 21 September, 2012 - 08:00 PM

5.19 pm:  Mukul Roy calls for vote on FDI

Former Railways Minister Mukul Roy has said that they did not want a vote of no confidence on the government, and wanted a vote on FDI instead. “The government should take a vote from the Parliament. If a majority of the members want FDI they should find that out”, he said.

Roy went on to repeat that the TMC withdrew support from the government because it had taken an anti-poor, anti-farmer policy. He added that the TMC would continue their fight against FDI, price hike, and the LPG cap.

5.04 pm: Sougata Roy confirms formal resignation

Senior TMC leader Sougata Roy says that the letters of resignation were tendered to the Prime Minister and handed over their letter of support from the Union government to the President. He says that apart from that, they did not say anything extra. He declines to give media information about the Prime Minister’s resignation saying, “whatever was said or not said to us is confidential information”.

4.52pm: PM said he was sorry that TMC MPs resigned

It is done. The TMC alliance with the UPA is now formally over. The Ministers say that the meeting lasted not more than two to three minutes, and said that the Prime Minister had declared his sadness at the decision and thanked them for their services.

4.33 pm: TMC MPs head to Rashtrapati Bhavan, ‘tigress’ Mamata makes fiery speech in WB

The TMC MPs are now in talks with President Pranab Mukherjee, after having submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Meanwhile party leader Mamata Banerjee is not being idle in their absence. Addressing a rally in West Bengal, the fiery leader said, “I am not scared of anyone. As long I live, I’ll live like a tigress”

4.15 pm: TMC meeting with PM ends

It appears to have been a very short meeting. The TMC MPs have emerged out of the Prime Minister’s residence and have simply gotten in to their cars and driven away without making any comment to the media gathered outside. Did the Prime Minister simply take their resignations and walk away? Was there any discussion at all? At this point we have no clue.

The MPs are now on their way to the President’s house.