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By J.P. Shukla
"There is no danger to my Government and it would serve the full five years in office. Also there is no need to call an Assembly session at this stage,'' she told newspersons on the completion of six months in office by her Government. Ms. Mayawati said the Samajwadi Party leader, Mulayam Singh Yadav, had been opposed to her government ever since the last elections. First, his party doubted the majority of her Government immediately after she had taken the oath. When the majority was proved in the Assembly during the vote of confidence, they raised the issue again. The Government won the trust of the Assembly for a second time during the budget session. There was nothing new for the SP to raise questions about the majority once again and the efforts were meaningless. She said the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, had rightly ignored the requests of Mr. Yadav as he had the habit of "deceiving any party that came to his help''. Ms. Gandhi's decision was based on the principle of "tit for tat" as Mr. Yadav had done the same to her when she had wanted his support to her claim for Prime Ministership after the fall of the Vajpayee Government in 1999. Describing the dissidence in the BJP, her coalition partner, as an internal matter of that party, she said minor differences erupted from time to time in every party. The BJP developments should be viewed in that light and would subside in due course. But that did not mean that there was any threat to her Government. She denied she had differences with the BJP general secretary, Rajnath Singh, whose favourites are in the vanguard of the dissident activity in the party. Whatever misgivings were there had been resolved before the coalition Government was installed in the State. To a question whether she had opposed the inclusion of an independent MLA, Raghuraj Pratap Singh, in her Ministry, Ms. Mayawati said that nominating Ministers from the BJP quota had been entirely left to the party leaders. It was for the BJP to decide whether to include Mr. Singh and she had never opposed the idea. She also rejected the allegations that police action had been initiated against some independent MLAs for political reasons. There was no political motive behind these actions and police were only investigating cases registered in the past. Ms. Mayawati alleged that Mr. Yadav was trying to "purchase MLAs to topple her Government". However, all the allurements had been rejected by the MLAs so far. The Samajwadi Party's claim of support of 204 MLAs was baseless. If 37 BJP MLAs supported the SP as claimed by the party leader, Amar Singh, how was it that they did not write to the Governor expressing their support to SP, she asked.
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