Decision on support in a day or two: RLD

LUCKNOW: Vice-president of the Rashtriya Lok Dal Thakur Rameshwar Singh told a press conference on Tuesday that the decision whether to pull out of the Mayawati government or not would be decided by the party legislators in a day or two. Explaining the cause of delay in this regard, the RLD vice-president said that Ajit Singh quit the Vajpayee government for its indifferent attitude towards farmers.The RLD chief had demanded Rs 2,000 crore for giving relief to farmers but the Centre doled out a meagre Rs 400 crore, he said. For the RLD, he said, interests of farmers was uppermost. If an alternative coalition offers better prospects for farmers, the RLD would not hesitate to join it, he said. In this era of coalition, the party should not shut its doors to other outfits, said Thakur Rameshwar Singh. Ruling out split in the RLD, he said that the entire legislature party was solidly behind Ajit Singh and any talk of a split was baseless. The RLD, he said, was not averse to a negotiation with Mulayam Singh Yadav but farmers' interests should be kept in mind for getting support of the RLD. On keeping RLD legislators in confinement, he said, that they had been housed at a distant place to make them out of bounds from unscrupulous people. But they were not hostage of any body and free to go by their own conscience, he said.