MSY: SP to play key role in Govt formation at Centre

The Samajwadi Party will play a crucial role in the formation of the next government at the Centre, said party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav while addressing an election rally here on Saturday. 

Both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress would fall short of majority after the elections and the Third Front would form the government, he said. “In two-thirds of the states, neither the BJP nor the Congress hold any hold importance and the regional parties are dominant. After the elections, the Third Front will be the biggest winning combination,” he said. 

“In the past two decades, coalition governments, UPA and NDA, ruled at the Centre. This time too, regional parties will be the biggest gainers,” he observed.Reading out from the election manifesto of the party, Yadav promised reservation for Muslims as per the Sachar Commission recommendations and added that if the Samajwadi Party was voted to power, a panel would also be formed to fix reservation for poor upper caste members.Free education, free treatment of cancer and kidney, liver and heart diseases, special schemes for artisans and weavers and Scheduled Caste status to 17 backward castes were some of the poll promises repeated by Mulayam Singh Yadav.Visibly exhausted by the heat, Yadav termed BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi a liar. He cited high rates of fertilisers, large number of suicides, unemployment, water crisis, malnutrition among women and poor law and order as the failures of Modi’s Government in Gujarat.

Meanwhile, addressing another rally in Bhadohi, Yadav said the Congress Government was a “failure” and claimed that the gross domestic product of the country had reduced drastically under its rule.The SP supremo claimed that after intrusion by China’s army in Indian territory, two Union ministers and several officials came to him to seek his suggestions.“When I asked about the roads and fencing done during my regime as the Defence Minister, they failed to give a reply. I was told that the roads were damaged and they were not repaired by Congress and BJP,” he said.

Yadav said that if his party formed the government at the Centre, Dalit and anti dowry laws would be amended so that innocent persons were not wrongly framed.

The SP supremo promised that if voted to power, he would provide facilities to farmers and Muslims to improve the condition of agriculture sector and also to weavers, besides ensuring free education to students and allowance to unemployed youth.