GoM on Greater Noida airport project acts as bait for BSP

New Delhi: For the UPA government, the GoM formed to examine the proposal to set up a greenfield airport at Greater Noida has become the bait to keep the 21-member BSP by its side.
The GoM, which is headed by home minister P Chidambaram, has not had a single meeting so far, and the BSP has been kept at bay by mere promises. Meetings were scheduled for May 5, and then again on June 6, but were called off for unspecified reasons. The government is now toying with the idea of holding its meeting on August 25, which also happens to be the last day of the monsoon session of Parliament, only if BSP supremo Mayawati pushes it hard.
The ministerial panel, which also comprises law minister Veerappa Moily, HRD minister Kapil Sibal and civil aviation minister Praful Patel, was revived on the eve of the voting on the Opposition-sponsored cut motions in the Lok Sabha during the budget session this year with an eye on the BSP’s support.
Besides the DA cases pending against Ms Mayawati and the fate of statues of Dalit icons, the GoM too was dangled as the bait, and the BSP fell in line soon, when it voted with the government on the cut-motions. A meeting of the ministerial panel scheduled soon after, but could not take place.
04/08/10 Economic Times

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