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UP needs a Muslim CM
SENIOR CONGRESS leader Ashok Bajpai on Monday said Uttar Pradesh needed a Muslim chief minister. He rejected Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan?s demand for a Muslim Pradesh.
SENIOR CONGRESS leader Ashok Bajpai on Monday said Uttar Pradesh needed a Muslim chief minister. He rejected Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan’s demand for a Muslim Pradesh.
The Congress had already decided to install Salman Khurshid as chief minister if the party came to power in the State, he said.
He said it appeared that the SP had no worthwhile issues to raise, thus Khan had voiced the demand for Muslim Pradesh.
He said there were chances of imposition of President’s rule in the State, if Ajit Singh withdrew support to the Mulayam Government.
He also said the Congress was the sole benefactor of Muslims.
He condemned Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav’s views on SIMI. He ridiculed the Samajwadi Party for supplying wrong information to the Supreme Court through documents which did not list a single SP leader in the mafia category.
Following a Supreme Court directive, the State Government had submitted a list of 288 mafiosi.
Bajpai said his party had never given patronage to the Mafiosi.
He demanded imposition of President’s rule in the State because of breakdown of the state machinery. He also demanded that mafia elements in the State be jailed.
Such criminals, he said, were moving with gunners provided by the State Government.
Meanwhile, former MLA and AICC secretary Bhola Pandey, who had come to attend the eighth death anniversary of Rajendri Kumari Bajpai, also attacked the Mulayam Government for being “the cause of failure of the constitutional machinery in the state”.
He said Congress president Sonia Gandhi had decided to launch a series of nine rallies in the State from August 8.
