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\nNew Delhi, Sep 21 : A delegation of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) led by Shri Mukul Roy, General Secretary, AITC and Chairman, AITC Parliamentary Party (Lok Sabha &Rajya Sabha) called on the President Shri Pranab Mukherjee at 4.30 p.m. today (September 21, 2012) and submitted a letter communicating withdrawal of support to UPA-II with immediate effect said a press statement issued issued by Rashtrapati Bhawan.
\n The tie is off . Mukul Roy however said his party did not want a trust vote to prove the Government’s majority, but wanted a vote in Parliament on the issue of Foreign Direct Investment in retail, the reason for Mamata Banerjee’s exit from the UPA.
\nMamata Banerjee’s six ministers hand-delivered their resignation letters to the PM, before setting out to meet the President and formally ending their party’s partnership with the Congress-led government.
\nThe government is not in danger after exit of 19 Lok Sabha MPs, as it has the external support of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati, who have 43 MPs . Salman Khurshid and Pawan Kumar Bansal have said with the support of Mr Yadav, there is no need for the government to face a trust vote.
\n In West Bengal, the Congress’ six ministers in the Mamata Banerjee government will resign tomorrow. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav earlier said that his party would continue to lend outside support to the Congress-led government.
\n “Our support is clear. We will not let communal forces come to power. That is why I am supporting. I am not in UPA. But we are supporting so that communal forces do not go ahead,” he said.
\n UPA needs more than 272 MPs in the Lok Sabha and it has 254 now. Yadav\u2019s support has added 22 MPs while Mayawati\u2019s support has added 21 MPs. The ministers Mukul Roy, Sudip Bandhyopadhay, Sultan Ahmed, Saugata Roy, Sisir Adhikary and C M Jatua who resigned personally met the Prime Minister and the President.<\/p>\n\n