The Hindu : Vajpayee, Advani protecting Mayawati, says Mulayam Singh

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Wednesday, Jun 11, 2003

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Vajpayee, Advani protecting Mayawati, says Mulayam Singh

By Our Special Correspondent

LUCKNOW June 10. The Samajwadi Party (SP) leader, Mulayam Singh Yadav, today expressed his apprehension that the legislators of the Rashtriya Lok Dal might be implicated in false cases and efforts made to eliminate some of them. The Mayawati Government was functioning in a "revengeful manner" and was adopting all tactics to "browbeat the Opposition". "The Chief Minister was capable of doing anything to cow down the RLD MLAs," he said.

Addressing the party MPs, MLAs and officer bearers here, Mr. Yadav said the SP should be prepared to face the "reign of terror' let loose by the State Government. With the withdrawal of support by the RLD, the Mayawati Government had been reduced to a "minority". The right course of action should have been the dismissal of the Government but the constitutional functionaries, including the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and the Governor had "connived to perpetuate this unconstitutional rule", he alleged.

He said that Mr. Vajpayee was behaving not as the Prime Minister but as a representative of the RSS.

He alleged that Mr. Vajpayee and his deputy, L.K. Advani, had assured Ms. Mayawati that her Government would not be dismissed whether or not it enjoyed a majority in the Assembly.

Only this assurance had emboldened her to continue with her foreign tour ever after the RLD had withdrawn support to her Government.

And, for the Chief Minister, everything was justified to keep herself in power. MLAs had been charged under the provisions of POTA too.

Mr. Yadav alleged that millions of rupees had been siphoned off to foreign banks and that two Ministers had been "assigned" the job of collecting funds. His party could not remain a silent spectator to the "terrorising tactics" of Ms. Mayawati.

He said that he would prepare a detailed programme of agitation against the Mayawati Government after June 21 when the Chiraigaon Assembly byelection would be over.

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