Itanagar: Though the ruling Congress in Arunachal Pradesh, which has a two thirds majority in the assembly, has rejected the offer of support from UPA partners Trinamool Congress and NCP, it was bound to approach the parties "sooner or later", a Trinamool leader said on Tuesday.
"Even though Congress has spurned our support, but sooner or later they will have to approach us for support during the next election of President, Vice-President and Rajya Sabha members. But it will be quid pro quo," newly elected leader of Trinamool Congress Legislature Party (TCLP) Laeta Umbrey told a press conference here.
Both NCP and Trinamool would extend outside support to Congress and talks were on for floor coordination between the two UPA allies, he said.
Urging the Congress not to take the two parties for granted, he said, their support was neither a blanket one nor an unconditional one. "It will be constructive and issue-based in the interest of the state."
Asked how the TC expected to survive when all nine BJP MLAs in the last assembly had defected with the Leader of the Opposition to the Congress, Umbrey said "BJP is not in power at the Centre, whereas Trinamool is a partner of UPA with seven of its 19 MPs being ministers.
That is why I said we have no alternative but to support Congress here, which is the wish of party supreme Mamata Banerjee."
Bureau Report
