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While the Congress cautioned the BJP allies to remain alert against such unexpected treatment, the BJP took the RLD leader to task for accusing the Vajpayee Government of pursuing "anti-farmer" policies. The Congress spokesman, S. Jaipal Reddy, said the BJP's allies should be alert and not meet the fate of Mr. Singh and Mamata Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress. "Ajit Singh has been humiliated through elimination from the Union Cabinet after being used politically. Mamata Banerjee is also meeting the same fate in instalments. This will be the fate of every BJP partner in due course,'' he told reporters. The allies should realise that the `saffron' party had "completely thrown away'' Mr. Singh and "marginalised" Ms. Banerjee. "This always happens when one joins the coalition out of compulsion and not with conviction." The BJP spokesman, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, on the other hand, lashed out at Mr. Singh for criticising the very Government of which he was a part a day ago. Speaking to reporters here, he said "when Ajit Singh was in power, this very Government was pro-farmer. If he was honest, he should have resigned three or four months ago.'' Mr. Naqvi cited measures such as Kisan credit cards, the Annapoorna Yojana and cold storage subsidy which the BJP-led coalition had introduced to benefit farmers. If Mr. Singh did not consider them "pro-farmer,'' it was indeed "unfortunate.'' On the plight of the sugarcane farmers in Uttar Pradesh, Mr. Naqvi said that all their dues were of the current year and that there were no arrears. Expressing confidence that the RLD decision to pull out of the Mayawati Ministry would not have any effect on the coalition Government in the State, he said "the State leadership is watching the situation and the party's central leadership is also in touch.''
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