New Delhi, Aug 19: The Congress sponsored the no-confidence motion on a ''trivial issue'' and that too after more than four years of the Vajpayee government, Telugu Desam Party leader M Yerrannaidu today said.
The first and belated move of the Congress during the 13th Lok Sabha has, in fact, ''endorsed'' the coalition view that the government is doing well, the TDP parliamentary party leader said while participating in the debate on the motion.


He said that the alleged denial of the Central Vigilance Commission's report on Kargil purchases to the Public Accounts Committee was a ''trivial issue''.


Lashing out at the Congress, the main political rival of the Andhra Pradesh-based TDP, which is a key partner of the NDA, Yerrannaidu said that it was the more than four-decade-long ''dictatorial rule'' of the Congress at the Centre and in the states which led to the formation of regional parties.

Now no government at the Centre could be formed without the support of regional parties, he said adding that but the Congress realised this fact belatedly . The congress has been forced to change its Panchmarhi resolution of 1998 of going alone in the elections with its Shimla stance of welcoming coalition with regional parties.

He said that the Congress had initiated the communalisation of Indian polity by instigating Hindu-Muslim riots in various parts of the country and then raked up the Ayodhya issue by performing 'shilanyas' at the disputed site.

It was the Congress which institutionalised corruption, nepotism and dynastic rule in the country, he added while opposing the non-confidence motion.
Bureau Report