New Delhi: It seems as if the Manmohan Singh Government is not the only one who will be ready to learn to live without the Left. Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee may well be subjected to the same treatment that the Left has been according the UPA Government.
Chatterjee had been under intense pressure from the CPI-M to resign as the Lok Sabha Speaker after the party withdrew support to the Government and even listed him as among the party MPs who had withdrawn support.
The CPI-M wanted him to toe the party line, but he insisted on remaining in the post of the Speaker, maintaining that he was above party politics.
Top CPI-M leaders will meet on Wednesday to decide on the action to be taken against the Speaker. Wednesday's meeting may well see Chatterjee being expelled from the primary membership of the party, a post that he has been in for almost half a century.
CPI-M General Secretary, Prakash Karat had earlier said that the politburo had been directed by the party's Central Committee to decide on what would be the appropriate action against the Speaker.
Lately, there have been reports that he planned to resign after conducting the confidence motion. However, Somnath Chatterjee on Tuesday evening kept on the suspense over whether he would quit or not by saying that he would "decide when the time comes".
"Do you want me to resign?" Chatterjee retorted when asked by reporters if he planned to quit after conducting the proceedings of the confidence motion as had been speculated.
Meanwhile, a confident Karat who had on Sunday warned the UPA that the country would revolt if the Government tried to push through the nuclear deal is now having to eat his words.
Having faced defeat in the confidence motion, the CPI-M will look meet to debate the party's future strategy. The party has of now taken an aggressive stand saying that they want an investigation into the incident of money being shown in Parliament by BJP MPs who had claimed SP MPs had bribed them to get them to abstain.
"It is a sad day for Parliamentary democracy in India when all norms are sacrificed for a nuclear deal which is against the interest of the country,"CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat had said after the confidence vote in Lok Sabha.
He had further added that the Congress "may take satisfaction from the Government winning the vote of confidence but the trust vote has been accompanied by reports of "bribery, intimidation and horse-trading".
BSP chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati also went on a tirade on Tuesday eveing, claiming the UPA and the NDA had "conspired" to prevent her from becoming the Prime Minister.
"The UPA's victory is not due to their policies but a well thought-out political conspiracy by both the NDA and the UPA to check the BSP and prevent the daughter of a Dalit from becoming the Prime Minister of the country," she said after the Government won the trust vote in the Lok Sabha.
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