MUMBAI, March 11: Notwithstanding its massive success in the just concluded polls, the Congress-led Opposition will not move a no-confidence motion against the minority Sena-BJP government.``Despite the fact that the Sena-BJP alliance has been nearly wiped out in the polls, we do not propose to move a no-confidence motion against it. We feel that it should resign on its own as it has lost the mandate to rule,'' leaders of Opposition Chhagan Bhujbal and Madhukar Pichad said.Speaking at a meet-the-press programme on the eve of the ensuing budget session of the State Legislature, Bhujbal and Pichad observed that Joshi should resign as the Congress-RPI-SP combine has secured a lead in 209 out of the 288 assembly segments in the just concluded polls.Bhujbal said the entire Opposition will press for tabling of the Srikrishna Commission. ``Since Chief Minister Manohar Joshi and Deputy Chief Minister Gopinath Munde are making contradictory statements on the report, I am doubtful if the report will bepublished or otherwise. The people of Maharashtra have the right to know the contents of the report,'' Bhujbal added.Bhujbal said if the Government was unable to table the report along with the action taken on it, then it should atleast table the report for the legislators.During the five-week session, the Opposition will take the Government to task for its failure to implement the assurances given to them during the winter session at Nagpur. At the session, Joshi had declared that illegal and unauthorised structures of Sahara India's tourism project in Pune district would be demolished and a probe conducted into illegal disposal of surplus land by a section of the textile mills in the metropolis. ``The structures have not been demolished nor a probe conducted into the land deals,'' Bhujbal added.Bhujbal and Pichad also lambasted the government for its failure to implement the recommendations of the Fifth Pay Commission and the shoddy implementation of the Small Savings Scheme. ``The savings schemehas virtually become a new kind of extortion racket,'' they alleged.Alleging that the law and order situation in the State and particularly in the metropolis was deteriorating, Bhujbal and Pichad said it appears that the law enforcing agencies have collapsed completely.Referring to the plight of the farmers in the backward regions, the duo said the alliance government has deliberately ignored them. ``Against the loss of crops worth lakhs of rupees, it has given them a cheque of Rs 25 or Rs 50 as financial assistance. It was most inhuman,'' they observed.About the row over the Rent Act, Bhujbal, who was then a Housing Minister when the bill was introduced, said, ``we will ensure that the rights of the tenants are protected at any cost,'' they said.Bhujbal recalled the charge he had made last year against Smita, daughter-in-law of Bal Thackeray. ``From the same platform, Thackeray had declared that some files pertaining to illegalities committed by Sharad Pawar and me have been submitted to Joshifor investigation, while I had demanded a probe into the flat purchased by Smita,'' Bhujbal said.While there is no progress in the charges levelled against him and Pawar, the charges against Smita are being probed by the Income-Tax department, he added.
