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Mayawati is only a `patwari': Amar Singh

By Our Special Correspondent

JAIPUR JUNE 28. The Samajwadi Party leader, Amar Singh, has alleged that the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, were making the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mayawati, do what she did to oppress her political rivals.

`` Ms. Mayawati is only a patwari while Mr. Vajpayee and Mr. Advani are the Collectors,'' Mr. Singh, told mediapersons here.

``Every party is active in Rajasthan now after a gap of over four years. Some of them have started paying lip service to the Kshatriya community in the State,'' he said.

Mr. Singh said the BJP, which was trying to woo the Kshatriyas in Rajasthan, should explain to the people what the Mayawati Government supported by it in Uttar Pradesh had done to leaders of the community like Raja Bhaiya and Uday Singh under the oppressive POTA.

It was not Ms. Mayawati but senior BJP leaders who were making her do these things, Mr. Singh alleged. "If the State BJP president, Vasundhara Raje Scindia, cannot protect the Kshatriyas in U.P., how can she protect them in Rajasthan.''

He also alleged that if Ms. Mayawati had her way she would have put himself and the party president, Mulayam Singh Yadav, behind bars. "There are 200 cases against us filed in as many as 70 districts of U.P."

The Samajwadi Party leader termed the Congress support to his party in U.P. as "belated.'' "The SP was not keen on pulling down the present U.P. Government."

Mr. Singh said the party would be happy to align with the Congress in Rajasthan in the coming elections. In case there was to be no formal agreement with the Congress, then the Samajwadi Party would have to put up its own candidates. "We are a political party and we have to take care of our interests,'' he said even while asserting that they would make sure that the presence of the SP candidate in the fray would not benefit the BJP.

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