The Hindu : Sangh Parivar planning communal riots: Mulayam

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Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003

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Sangh Parivar planning communal riots: Mulayam

By Our Special Correspondent

LUCKNOW JAN. 14. The Samajwadi Party leader, Mulayam Singh Yadav, today accused the Sangh Parivar and the Bharatiya Janata Party of vitiating the atmosphere in the country to gain political mileage.

He told presspersons here that the provocative statements being made by leaders of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Bajrang Dal indicated that they wanted to ``engineer communal riots''.

They had a vested interest in fomenting communal disharmony and wanted to divide society to capture power. And to add to the problem, the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, were creating a ``fear psychosis'' on the eve of the Republic Day as they had before Independence Day.

Referring to Mr. Advani's statement that there was a serious threat to the country's internal security, Mr. Yadav said he should have also disclosed who was behind such moves. Mr. Advani's statement amounted to the admission that the Vajpayee Government had failed to protect the people and, therefore, it had lost the ``moral right to remain in power''.

According to Mr. Yadav, the Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf, Mr. Vajpayee and Mr. Advani were ``responsible'' for the menace of terrorism in India.

If Gen. Musharraf was encouraging terrorism, then Mr. Vajpayee and Mr. Advani were helping him by doing nothing to check it. The roots of terrorism lay in the supply of arms and narcotic drugs and nothing was being done to check this.

Though a foreign hand was blamed for every terrorist act in India, the Government never tried to explain how this was possible.

Mr. Yadav appealed to all like-minded secular parties to join hands and overthrow the Vajpayee Government which had become a ``serious threat'' to the country. His party was in favour of unity among all anti-BJP forces at the national level.

Mr. Yadav criticised the ``waste of money'' for the birthday celebration of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mayawati, on Wednesday when the poor and the downtrodden had been forced to freeze to death by the cold wave. ``Ms. Mayawati appears bent upon destroying everything that is known to people in the name of democracy,'' he said.

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