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SP to review support to Centre: CM
CHIEF MINISTER Mulayam Singh Yadav today announced that the Samajwadi Party would review its support to the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre.
CHIEF MINISTER Mulayam Singh Yadav today announced that the Samajwadi Party would review its support to the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre.
Assailing the Centre for carrying on a tirade against SP leaders, Yadav said the national executive committee would be summoned soon to discuss the issue. However, he did not want to go it alone. He said the issue would also be taken up with the Left Front, which had been sustaining the UPA government.
Addressing a youth rally organised by the party’s frontal organisations here, the chief minister said the time had come to review relations with the UPA government.
Calling upon the youth to be ready for a major political struggle, he said from February 21 to 27 they should fan out in rural areas to expose the misdeeds of the UPA government and its nexus with communal forces.
Yadav said the frontal organisations should start assembly election preparation immediately as “not much time was left”.
Expressing resentment against his ministers, MLAs and MPs, the chief minister said “saab suvidha bhogi ho gaye hai (all of them had become leisure loving) and added that the party had pinned its hope on youth for coming back to power on its own strength. In order to keep his Muslim voters in good humour, the chief minister said the party would not tolerate India’s vote against Iran on nuclear issue.
Accusing the UPA government of acting as an agent of the Bush administration, Yadav said the party would oppose his visit. He said the Left Front should also ponder over its support to the UPA government, which had failed to contain communal forces in the country.
He said a conspiracy had been hatched against SP leaders and youth should be ready to take on the Congress on this issue.
He lauded Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh for exposing the Congress plot against the party.
Expressing satisfaction over the increasing strength of the party in the state, Yadav said the recent election results had given enough indication that the party would win the assembly polls with a comfortable majority. Enumerating the achievements of his government, Yadav said a bogey of law and order had been created to defame his government.
He said his government had inherited a poor law and order situation from the BSP-BJP coalition government. He said his party would promote young leaders as the present leadership was getting old.
