Central govt will fall in 2 months: Bhajan

CHANDIGARH, July 21: Bhajan Lal, former Haryana Chief Minister and Congress MP, today said the 18-party coalition government at the Centr...

CHANDIGARH, July 21: Bhajan Lal, former Haryana Chief Minister and Congress MP, today said the 18-party coalition government at the Centre would fall within the next two months.

Talking to reporters in the Press Gallery of the Haryana Assembly, Bhajan Lal said the Congress would replace the Vajpayee government at the Centre with the support of like-minded parties and complete its full-term.

Various parties such as Rashtriya Jan Morcha of Laloo Prasad Yadav and Mulayam Singh Uadav, were keen to support the Congress in forming a government at the Centre, he said.

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Bhajan Lal, who was here to witness the swearing in ceremony of his son, Kuldeep Bishnoi (a newly-elected MLA from Adampur), said the present arrangement can not continue for long as most of the partners were busy sniping at each other. "The Congress president, Sonia Gandhi had given only six months to the coalition government. Of this, four months are already over and two months are left," he said.

The former CM said the fall of Vajpayee government at the Centre would lead to the collapse of the Bansi Lal led government in the state. But he quickly added that the state may witness fresh elections after the fall of the HVP-BJP government. "In such a situation, I would like to return to the state to become the Chief Minister to bring Haryana back on the path of development," he said.

Bhajan Lal said that the Bansi Lal government had failed to check deterioration in law and order, and development had taken a back seat in the state. "There are problems of shortage of power and water, dilapidated roads but the state government was not doing anything about them," he said. He urged the government to hold negotiations with the striking nurses and concede their genuine demands at the earliest so that work in hospitals was not hampered.

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