Impose President?s rule before poll: Pal

FORMER STATE president of Congress, Jagdambika Pal has invited the attention of chief election commissioner over the tactics of Mulayam Singh led state government to woo the electorates with assembly elections around the corner.

FORMER STATE president of Congress, Jagdambika Pal has invited the attention of chief election commissioner over the tactics of Mulayam Singh led state government to woo the electorates with assembly elections around the corner.

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Pal suggested that assembly election should be conducted under President’s rule, which can be enforced from January 3 next year.

While talking to media persons, Pal revealed that election commissioner has directed the chief secretary of UP not to transfer the district magistrate and other officials engaged in finalising the voter lists. He claimed that the recently concluded civic body election was akin to a semi-final match where SP candidates had faced humiliating defeat with no party candidate winning a seat in eastern UP.

Coming down heavily on the state government for resorting to police lathi charge on Congress activists in Lucknow, he said, that the government is under tremendous pressure after the civic bodies election results and is now trying to harass their political opponent.

He blamed the Mulayam government for not making any budgetary provision for the unemployment allowance cheques thast he had been distributing from the contingency fund. He claimed that the cheques were distributed to attract the voters more than anything else and that people have seen through this ruse and are fed up with the misrule.

Terming the SP led government anti-farmers he cited several failures of Mulayam government, including farmers facing unprecedented crisis for seeds and fertilizers, non establishment of district paddy centres and finally no operation of sugar mills in Eastern UP. He demanded the support price of sugar cane to be fixed at Rs 150 per quintal and also other farmer friendly measures to be implemented soon. Pal said Congress had supported SP to keep the communal forces at bay but the latter continued to attack the Governor and Congress president Sonia Gandhi.