Click to play videoNew Delhi: Samajwadi Party (SP) General Secretary Amar Singh met Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Tuesday.
Even though Chatterjee's party, the Communist Party of India-Marxist, has withdrawn support to the United Progressive Alliance Government and will be voting against it on July 22, the Speaker is reluctant to step down.
“We made a request that Speaker mustn’t step down. You are the guardian and the custodian of this August office. You must not resign. He said he has taken notice of our request and he will try and apply his mind and do accordingly,” the SP leader said.
When asked has the Prime Minister or anyone in the Congress assured you on Windfall Profit Tax/ Petroleum Ministry after the trust vote, Amar Singh replied, "Absolutely not. I have not laid any condition. I swear in the name of almighty and these issues are not news. I have been raising these issues for long. Now this is news but earlier whenever I used to write letters they weren't news."
“My basic objection against Murli Deora was the article published in The Economic Times where it was stated that private refinery making windfall profit. Deora should have contradicted that. Now that he has come out with a public statement that SP is our ally and whatever they want to be done we are open to that. My contention is that we have made certain conditions without any suggestions. We want to convince and we want to get convinced,” he said about Deora.
He also declined to view the Prime Minister not intervening between Ambani brothers as a snub to him.
“I will not get provoked by this kind of question that it is a snub to me. It's not a major issue for me. Both the brothers hold five per cent of the GDP. The way the fight is on, the way in which it is discussed in the media, it seems like they are more interested in it than the political parties,” he said.
A few days back Amar has said that the Prime Minister should intervene in the battle between the Ambani brothers - Mukesh and Anil.
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