By Nirendra Dev
New Delhi, July 19 (UNI) When it comes to number game, the ruling BJP will not let anything go by and
thus even the Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma, who continues to be Lok Sabha MP from Tura, is likely to participate in the No Confidence Motion debate on Friday and vote in favour of the Modi government.
"Meghalaya Chief Minister and Tura MP Me Sangma is already in Delhi.....He is expected to be in national
capital till Sunday," a BJP leader told UNI here on Thursday evening without elaborating further.
Mr Sangma's Nationalist People's Party (NPP) -- founded by his late father P A Sangma -- is a NDA partner in the national level and even in Meghalaya, BJP is part of the coalition government headed by him.
The BJP source also said: "We are not starting this game of bringing Chief Minister into Lok Sabha for voting.
Congress did it first in 1999 when the Vajpayee government was defeated by one vote after the vote by the then
Odisha Chief Minister Giridhar Gamang".
Much later in 2010 also, the BJP suffered "another setback" when the then Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren voted in favour the Manmohan Singh government notwithstanding the fact that Mr Soren was running a coalition government in Jharkhand with the support of BJP.
Few days later, BJP withdrew support to the Soren government and the then Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj -- certainly embarrassed -- described Mr Soren's decision "as treacherous and foul play".

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