We never withdrew No Trust notice: YSRCP

Hyderabad, Jan 17 (INN): Brushing aside the allegations that the Party has withdrawn the no-confidence motion against the UPA government, YSR Congress has said that detractors have been deliberately distorting facts to gain political mileage.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 seven of the eight 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 MV 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 high light that point and extended support by giving the notice on all the days despite the busy schedule of our Party President, YS Jagan Mohan 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.

The six Congress MPs and TDP MPs were not sincere in their effort of get the no- confidence motion admitted as they failed to gather the 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TDP and others alleging that we have withdrawn the no-confidence motion is totally baseless and it is the Congress MPs and their TDP counterparts who lacked sincerity as they only wanted to show off by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 podium and resorting to slogan shouting without any floor coordination and getting the required the number to get the motion admitted.

'To make things very clear, the no-confidence motion was moved by six dissident Congress MPs and we supported it to make the world know that there is division of opinion within the Party which highlights the point that the process of division of the State has many discrepancies.

But leaders of both the parties have behaved in a contrasting manner in the House which has surprised many,' he said. When YSR Congress delegation led by YS Jagan Mohan Reddy had met leaders of various political parties some said that they will support the no-confidence motion while others said that this is not the opportune time.

'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-trust motion was moved by dissident Congress members and we supported it to expose the double standards of the Party,' he said.