In an attempt to fathom political waters in the western Uttar Pradesh post-Muzaffarnagar riots Samajwadi party national president Mulayam Singh Yadav will hold a rally in Saharanpur on Tuesday amid tight security.
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, who also is the state president of the party, will share dais with his father along with senior ministers of his cabinet. This would be seventh of the series of Samajwadi Party rallies named ' Desh Bachao, Desh Banao' rally. "There is a huge enthusiasm among the people about these rallies because they know only Samajwadi Party can take this state and the country to the path of progress," SP’s spokesman Rajendra Chaudhry said in a statement issued here on Monday.
He said that people are coming in hoards to listen to Samajwadi party leaders. The emerging crowd of people has made Congress, BJP and BSP leaders very nervous and therefore they had started a canard against Akhilesh Yadav Government. Chief Minister is expected to make some announcements. He will also inaugurate medical college. This rally may witness opposition from a section of Muslims as some of them have opposed Government decision to re-christened Kanshi Ram Medical college as Maulana Shekh-ul-Hind.
Maulana Abdul latif Quasim , Ustad of Darul-uloom waqf, had said that the SP government wastrying to create a rift between the dalits and Muslims by changing the name of the Medical college. Meanwhile, district administration has made elaborate security arrangements for the rally. Eight companies of PAC have been deployed at the rally ground. Twelve additional SPs, 23 Deputy SPs, 55 police station in-charge, 300 sub-inspectors, 900 constables and head constables and 175 traffic police would also be deployed in the district. The district administration has already ordered closure of schools till class VIII in view of rally.