Agrawal with Kalyan: ambitious partyWhen he took the support of the 22-member Loktantrik Congress (LC), Chief Minister Kalyan Singh didn't realise he would end up a with a daily hangover.The ambitious LC members - all ministers in the jumbo Cabinet - and their supporters have been getting into "high spirits" after sundown inside the party office, located on Park Road, the abode of several ministers, officials and legislators. Not only that, some of them come knocking on Kalyan's doors in the dead of night to demand lucrative portfolios. One night, Kalyan let in a few LC ministers thinking it was some emergency. But their incoherent talk gave them away and Kalyan politely asked them to return when sober.Click here to EnlargeThat is not all. Apparently, senior BJP leaders and ministers too have been receiving phone calls at odd hours from hiccuping LC members seeking favours. In fact, ever since the elections were announced, the ambitions of the two-month-old party have soared.LC ministers, including Naresh Agrawal, who engineered the defections, and Transport Minister Jagdambika Pal have been claiming that their party, in alliance with the BJP, would contest at least 15 seats. Fed up with being taken for granted and under mounting pressure from the Sangh Parivar, Kalyan has now decided to bring down his errant ministerial colleagues by a peg or two.Published By: AtMigration Published On: Jan 12, 1998--- ENDS ---
