The Samajwadi party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today accused the BJP led National Democratic Alliance government of treading the footsteps of the Congress by unleashing the vendetta against its political opponents. Mulayam also declared that for the 2017 assembly polls RsThekedar (contractors) commissionkhor (corrupt) and Dabang (toughs) will not be given the party ticket. SP chief was addressing a meeting of the party cadres here on Wednesday to mark the 83rd birth anniversary of the socialist ideologue Janeshwar Mishra, better known as RsChote lohia’.
Mulayam’s observations against the BJP assumes significance in the wake of the tightening of noose around the neck of Yadav Singh, the suspended chief engineer of NOIDA and his proximity with the top echelons of the ruling Samajwadi Party. The CBI on Tuesday had conducted simultaneous raids at 16 places of Yadav Singh, his friends and relatives in NOIDA, Agra, Ferozabad and his son IAS son in law residence in lucknow.
RsRsPeople were disillusioned with the Congress due to rampant corruption, raging inflation and growing unemployment during its regime and the BJP was quick to capatialise on the opportunity and was able to capture power. Congress framed all its political opponents in one case or the other. They framed me, lalu Prasad Yadav, Jayalalitha and many others. The BJP is now following the footsteps of the Congress. I told a BJP leader that the Congress had a long stint in power but if the BJP continues with its tirade against its opponents then it stands to lose heavily and it will cut short its tenure in office at the Center’’ said the SP chief.
Harking back to the Nehru era of national politics, Yadav said RsRs Ram Manohar lohia was the most vociferous critic of Jawaharlal Nehru, later lohia was elected to continued with his campaign against Panditji and later his anti Nehru stance in public meetings attracted huge crowds but the then prime minister took it in strides and never indulged in vendetta against his opponents’’. He added RsRs lohia had challenged Nehru on the state of poverty in the country where 27 crore people or a family of five people survived on income of Rs One per day and Nehru accepted the fact’’.
lamenting the abysmal tally of mere 5 MPs in lok Sabha, Mulayam Singh Yadav slammed his party leaders and cadre for their incompetence and lack of hard work for the poor show of the party during the May 2014 parliament elections. RsRsAapne hame kaheen Ka Nahi Choda (you have not led me nowhere). Of the five MPs one is the wife of Akhilesh, two are his cousin brothers while one is his nephew. Despite the depleted strength the SP has been able to voice the grievances of the poor and downtrodden in a forceful manner’’, said the SP chief.
RsRsHad you had worked little harder and won us 30 lok Sabha seats the Samajwadi Party would have been in power at the Center today. This number of seats would have prevented the majority for the BJP and all parties would have rallied against the it thus paving the way for the formation of non BJP secular government at the Center’’, sighed the SP chief.
Criticising his son for inaction he said RsRs I had asked the state party to give me a report ascertaining the causes of the poor performance of the party in 2014 lok Sabha polls, I am still waiting for the report. Do not try to hide your failures and weakness face it’’.