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The political potboiler
IN ORDER to gear up for the election, the Samajwadi Party has decided to hold a rally on January 29 in Lucknow. Senior party leaders including Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, Janeshwar Yadav and Amar Singh would address the rally sponsored by frontal organizations of the party.
IN ORDER to gear up for the election, the Samajwadi Party has decided to hold a rally on January 29 in Lucknow. Senior party leaders including Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, Janeshwar Yadav and Amar Singh would address the rally sponsored by frontal organizations of the party.
From February 21, the youth wings would take out cycle yatras in rural areas to apprise the people about the programmes and policies of the State Government. The decision to hold Lucknow rally and cycle yatra was taken at a conference of frontal organizations here on Sunday, which was addressed by the chief minister, who called upon the youth to pull up socks for a bigger poll battle in the state.
With hardly any hope of Reliance gas-based power plant in Dadri providing power in near future, the Chief Minister said a well-planned conspiracy was hatched to split the Reliance family to delay the project. Yadav said a rift was created between Anil Ambani and Mukesh Ambani. Yadav said it was part of plot to distract the attention of Mukesh Ambani from Dadri project.
Reiterating his charge against the Congress about phone tapping, he said an industrialist had played a key role in the scandal. Yadav said some officers, including those whom he had helped in providing extension in service, were involved in the scam. He said while the SP had emerged victorious in the zila panchayat election,the BSP failed to win even a single seat in Bundelkhand. Later, talking to newspersons, the chairman frontal organizations Akhilesh Singh Yadav directed the youth wing leaders to fan out in rural areas for the propagation of the policies. Yadav said the SP was committed to providing unemployment allowance to the youth but it would be distributed whenever there was improvement in finances of the State Government.
Khurshid’s come-clean call again to SP leaders
UPCC PRESIDENT Salman Khurshid said the people of the State had a right to know the private life of Samajwadi Party leaders. He said people were concerned about the moral deterioration in ruling establishment in the State.
Talking to newspersons here on Sunday, Khurshid said people expected a transparent and clean image of their ruler but skeletons were tumbling out of the cupboards of the SP. Ridiculing the SP’s ‘Samajwadi’ rhetoric, the Congress chief said the functioning of Mulayam Singh Yadav government had amply exposed their false commitment to the poor of the state.
Referring to tapping of the phone of SP general secretary Amar Singh, the Congress leader said Singh had himself been revealing the contents of the tape. He said Singh had been asking questions and replying them also, which was quite ludicrous. He said the language being used by Amar Singh and other SP leaders in connection with phone tapping case reflected their mentality. Khurshid held the SP responsible for the decline in political language in the country. Strongly rebutting the charge of the involvement of the Congress in tapping, Khurshid said the truth would come out soon.
About the victory of the SP in Zila Panchayat election, Khurshid said the ruling party succeeded in winning these seats “through kidnapping, money and muscle power” and said the SP’s bubble would burst soon. He said within a year the State would go to the poll then the Congress would count the SP’s seats.
tressing that the SP was not coming back to the power again, Khurshid hoped the ruling party would not be able to commit irregularities in Assembly election. He said that the people also did not want assembly election under the present dispensation.
The Congress president said it would also not be good for healthy democratic values. Khurshid said during the last two years Yadav had “derailed basic democratic structure of the state”. He said Yadav’s politics through officers would not last long.
