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SP to hold key to next PM's post, says Mulayam Singh
If Samajwadi Party achieves the target of 60 seats, it would hold the key to the next PM's post, Mulayam Singh said.
The Samajwadi Party would hold the key to the next prime minister's post if it achieves the target of 60 seats in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav said here on Saturday.
Addressing a meeting here, the SP supremo said the party was facing a double attack from the BJP and the Congress during electioneering and the party would form a third front with small regional parties after the Lok Sabha elections.
On prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's assertions that the policies of BJP and SP were same, he said if the policies were the same so they should construct the Masjid at Ayodhya.
He said the Samajwadi Party's policies were quite different and there was no change in the party policies.
Attacking the RSS for talking about Kashi and Mathura temples and abolition of Section 370, he said they were propagating their old agenda again and asserted the Samjajwadi Party wanted not only to weaken the anti-secular parties but also aimed at finishing them forever.
On the Ayodhya issue, Yadav said "I had discharge my duties at the time of Ayodhya episode and had not done any obligation for Muslim community."
He charged that former prime minister VP Singh and LK Advani had not disclosed the Ayodhya plan and had kept it secret from him.
Attacking the Congress he said that if they were strong enough to defeat BJP, they would not have lost the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhatisgarh.
He also alleged that the BJP-led government had provided relief to an industrialist having Rs.5000 crores debts adding the industrialist has now become an NRI.
