In an attempt to scuttle the BSP’s move of forging a Dalit-Brahmin combine in the next 2014 lok Sabha polls, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said that the Akhilesh Yadav Government was reviewing all cases lodged against Brahmins during the previous regime.
“I have asked the law Secretary to review all the cases of SC/ST Act and others registered against the Brahmins. These should be withdrawn as per rules,” he said while addressing a conclave at the SP headquarters in lucknow on Friday.
The announcement assumes significance in view of Mayawati wooing Brahmins by organising conferences from May 4 next. The BSP has also announced 36 candidates for the next lok Sabha polls and almost half of them are Brahmins.
Earlier, the SP Government had announced to withdraw cases against Muslim youth implicated in terror cases.
This week it withdrew cases against HuJI ultra Tariq Qasmi — an accused in the Gorakhpur serial blasts cases of 2007 which left six people injured.
Yadav said the SP Government has always accorded honour and respect to the Brahmins, who had supported the party in the last Assembly polls. “The Brahmins promoted me and they were my backbone when I was heading the State. What I have achieved today is because of them,” he said.
The former UP CM, however, urged the Brahamins to fight for their rights as the community had provided leadership and direction to the country.
He said during his tenure as CM in 2003-07, Sanskrit was given importance and it was promoted. “This Government will too do the same as Sanskrit is a language used by the people for functions from birth to death,” he said.
Talking about the Akhilesh Yadav Government to honour the Brahmins, he said that the Janeshwar Mishra Eco-park in Gomti Nagar Extension has a total area of 307 acres and is bigger than the lohia Park in size.
Yadav also said that the SP had attached adequate importance to Acharya Hazari Prasad Dwivedi and his writings had been included in textbooks of the UP Board.
‘UPA Govt lacks courage to act against China’
lucknow: Holding the UPA Government responsible for the Chinese aggression, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav said the situation on the border was very critical but the Congress-led regime at the Centre had no courage to act against it.
“The Indian Government has ignored my repeated warning about Chinese aggression and now the country is facing a critical situation even when, as everyone knows, the Indian Army has the capability to face any situation,” the SP supremo said While addressing an “intellectual sammelan” of party leaders here on Friday. PNS