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UPA, Left discuss price rise, Sachar recommendations

K.V. Prasad

Ministers express dismay over BJP disrupting proceedings in Parliament

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TAKING STOCK: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and PDP leader Mufti Mohammad Sayeed during the UPA-Left Coordination Committee meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: Price rise and implementation of recommendations of the Justice Rajinder Sachar Committee on the status of Muslims in the country came up for discussion at a dinner hosted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the constituents of the United Progressive Alliance and supporting Left parties on Wednesday.

Dr. Singh informed the allies that the Union Cabinet has already held a meeting on the issue of price rise while the Sachar Committee report would be taken up in due course. The Left parties' leaders suggested that the Government could consider the proposal for a separate sub-plan for Muslims in the 11th Five Year Plan and also a quota for Dalit Muslims.

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad observed that the UPA would have to collectively take on the Bharatiya Janata Party, while some Union Ministers expressed dismay over the principal party in the opposition disrupting the proceedings of Parliament and disallowing the Government an opportunity to make its statement during the first half of the Budget session that went into recess on Wednesday.

One of the prominent leaders to attend the dinner was Peoples' Democratic Front leader Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, currently in the capital to attend a meeting with the Prime Minister on the issue of withdrawal of troops from the State.

Dr. Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Union Ministers Pranab Mukherjee, Shivraj Patil, Arjun Singh, P. Chidambaram, Lalu Prasad, Sharad Pawar, Praful Patel, Dayanidhi Maran, Anbumani Ramadoss and Ram Vilas Paswan were present.

The Left leaders at the dinner included CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat, Sitaram Yechury, AIFB general secretary Debabrata Biswas, RSP secretary Abani Roy and CPI national secretary D. Raja.

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