CRITICISING SAMAJWADI Party leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh for unnecessarily involving Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in the phone tapping case, former chief minister Kalyan Singh today said that a person like her could never indulge in such things.
In an informal chat with mediapersons on the occasion of his birthday, Kalyan Singh, who was instrumental in installation of the Mulayam government in the State, said that Sonia Gandhi was now a mature politician and it was not possible that she would stoop down to the level of tapping phones and that too of leaders like Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh.
Refusing to comment on the ‘appointment’ of Rajnath Singh to the coveted post of the BJP national president, Kalyan Singh admitted that sacked BJP leader Uma Bharti’s ‘Ram Roti Yatra’ was drawing huge crowds but did not respond to the question of Uma being taken back to the BJP once again.
Replying to a question on the proposed second phase of the Nyaya Yatra which was initiated by Rajnath Singh in protest against brutal murder of BJP legislator Krishnand Rai and six others and demand for a CBI probe, Kalyan Singh said no decision on the second phase of the yatra had been taken at any level in the party.
He regretted that major and basic issues like poverty, unemployment and problems of farmers had taken a backseat while phone tapping and Ram Dev etc. were hogging the limelight. Dubbing the allegations leveled against Ram Dev by Brinda Karat as a conspiracy of the multinationals, Kalyan Singh said that big companies’ business was being affected world-wide and they were feeling intimidated with the growing popularity of Ram Dev and his Yoga science.
{{/usCountry}}He regretted that major and basic issues like poverty, unemployment and problems of farmers had taken a backseat while phone tapping and Ram Dev etc. were hogging the limelight. Dubbing the allegations leveled against Ram Dev by Brinda Karat as a conspiracy of the multinationals, Kalyan Singh said that big companies’ business was being affected world-wide and they were feeling intimidated with the growing popularity of Ram Dev and his Yoga science.
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