The Hindu : Mulayam predicts fall of Mayawati

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Mulayam predicts fall of Mayawati

By K. Balchand

PATNA MAY 3. The Samajwadi Party president, Mulayam Singh Yadav, today predicted the fall of the BSP-BJP Government headed by the BSP leader Mayawati, which assumed office earlier in the day and said that mid-term polls to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly were not far off.

Mr. Yadav who visited Sharsa and Madhepura dubbed the BSP- BJP alliance as opportunistic and alleged that Mafia dons would call the shots as these two parties had more than 24 legislators with criminal background.

The Samajwadi leader, however, was critical of the Congress, accusing it of being solely responsible for allowing the `unholy alliance' to assume office. If the Congress had not extended its support Ms. Mayawati could not have formed the Government at any cost.

Threatening to expose the Congress in a couple of days at a press conference in Lucknow, he said that it would have to face the wrath of the people.

Mr. Yadav charged that the AICC president, Sonai Gandhi, and the RJD president, Laloo Prasad Yadav, were responsible for the plight of the country and said only the third front could provide a real alternative. He said the RJD chief by siding with the Congress instead of the third front had damaged the cause of secularism.

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