Issuing a warning to Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati, Samajwadi Party's senior leader and PWD Minister Shivpal Singh Yadav asked her to exercise restrain on the language she used against her political opponents and stop from inciting the ruling party workers otherwise the situation could go out of hand.
"The Samajwadi Party workers are a disciplined lot. If they are called 'goonda', they may react in a different way and even call her a 'goondi'," he told reporters here on Monday. Yadav said the Samajwadi Party government had never acted to settle political scores. Had it done so, Mayawati and her brother would have been behind the bars by now."The BSP president is repeatedly calling the ruling partymen as 'goondas'. She should exercise restraint on her language," he added.
Yadav was reacting to the allegations levelled by Mayawati against the SP government when she said that ruling party workers were 'goondas' and the state government was acting in a partisan manner. She even said that when her party would return to power she would teach the Samajwadi Party goons a lesson.
"There is no political vendetta in SP government's action. The government is trying to enforce the law of the land. What can we do if BSP ministers, legislators and workers are corrupt and had made money during the last regime. Action needs to be taken against them," Yadav said.
He said how could the BSP leader compare the law and order scenario during her tenure with that of the present regime. "Has the forgotten the Sheelu Nishad case or the Sonam case. Over half a dozen BSP ministers were sent to jail during the last regime for their involvement in crime. In Auraiya, an engineer was beaten to death because he refused to give money for the Chief Minister's birthday.
Two CMOs were killed in broad-daylight while a deputy CMO was killed inside district jail. The morale of the officials was so low that a senior IAS officer was forced to commit suicide," he added.
Yadav also said that the BSP president was the biggest "land mafia" as she had grabbed land in lucknow as well as in New Delhi."Mayawati says she will teach SP workers a lesson if her party returns to power. She is daydreaming. She will never come to power for at least one decade," Yadav predicted.