PUDUCHERRY: Union Minister of State for parliamentary affairs V Narayanasamy said that the stability of the AINRC government led by N Rangasamy would be known in due course. Briefing mediapersons at his camp office here on Saturday, he suspected that the party did not have a clear majority in the legislative Assembly, having to bank on an independent’s support to prove majority (14 AINRC MLAs and one independent) in the 30-member Assembly with one post vacant after Chief Minister Rangasamy resigned one of the two seats from where he was elected ).It was the duty of the union home minister and Lieutenant Governor to look into the aspect of majority of the government, he said, when asked whether Congress would seek floor test for the government to establish majority. “We would discuss and decide it later,” he said.When asked about the Congress extending support to the AINRC government for providing stability in the backdrop of Rangasamy calling on Sonia, he said that the question of support does not arise now. First, Rangasamy has to ask for the support from Congress, he said, and added that he knew of no such thing. Also, the AINRC chief himself had stated that the meeting with Sonia Gandhi was a courtesy call. In case he sought support, Sonia Gandhi would have conveyed the same to the AICC general secretary in charge of Puducherry and he in turn would have told him and the PCC. The views in this regard would have been conveyed by the Puducherry Congress to the AICC.The Congress is also silent on whether the opposition would field a unified candidate for election of the speaker. Narayanasamy said that it would be decided when the speaker election was notified, so also with regard to the leader of the Congress Legislature Party, when the Assembly convened for speaker election. However, he assured that Congress would not topple the AINRC government.He said that not much political significance should be attached to the meeting between Sonia Gandhi and Rangasamy, adding that it was common courtesy to greet even opposition party leaders after elections and cited that Sonia Gandhi had also greeted AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on her victory after elections.
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