| Friday, January 19, 2007 |
| Congress withdraws support to Mulayam Govt |
Finally, the Congress Party has made up its mind on Mulayam Singh Yadav. The Congress has decided to withdraw support to the Mulayam Singh Government in Uttar Pradesh.
With the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also stating that they would not stand by Mulayam Singh and the 15-member Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) waiting for the right moment to strike, the days of the Samajwadi Party (SP) Government are numbered.
At a news conference late on Wednesday evening, after receiving clear instructions from the Congress high command, the party’s Uttar Pradesh president Salman Khurshid and Congress Legislature Party leader Pramod Tewari said they would call on Governor T V Rajeswar on Thursday morning to "technically" withdraw the support.
The Congress decision comes in the wake of the "anarchy-like" situation prevailing in Uttar Pradesh.
Salman Khurshid said that "in this regime, in which the common man has lost confidence, it would not be possible to have fair and free elections to the state Assembly."
He also said the incident of ghastly killings of children in Nithari village, near Noida, is clearly a case of administrative failure on the part of the Mulayam Singh Government.
"We cannot tolerate this regime anymore," declared Khurshid. Though corruption has spread its tentacles in the entire state, he said, its epicentre is in Noida – a place once famous for good governance."
The state, Khurshid said, "has treated public funds as though they were given for the personal comfort of a few favoured politicians. The administrative machinery has been turned into an unquestioning service of the ruling party. Scams surface only to be buried without investigations."
Salman Khurshid lambasted Mulayam Singh for "never having a clear public mandate" and said "Mulayam Singh’s was a minority government dressed up like a majority government."Labels: Politics |
| posted by a correspondent @ 10:13 AM |
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