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BSP charges BJP and Mulayam with splitting it in UP
New Delhi, Sept 05: Bahujan Samaja Party (BSP)leader, Rashid Alvi today charged the BJP and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav with trying to split its party MLAs in that state.
New Delhi, Sept 05: Bahujan Samaja Party (BSP)leader, Rashid Alvi today charged the BJP and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav with trying to split its party
MLAs in that state.
"Money and all kinds of pressure tactics are being used to break the Uttar Pradesh BSP Legislature Party" ahead of the trial of strength in the state assembly on September 08, Alvi told a news agency.
"Everybody knows that BJP and Mulayam Singh Yadav are doing all this and they are using money and all kinds of pressure tactics to split BSP," he said.
Alvi said that since Uttar Pradesh Governor Vishnu Kant Shastri gave Yadav 14 days' time to prove his majority in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, "not only money, but everything is being used" to lure BSP legislators. Stating that all kinds of pressure was being exerted on the family members of his party MLAs, he said "it is absolutely unconstitutional and against democratic norms.
Alvi said that many big industrialists had attended the function where Mulayam Singh Yadav was sworn-in as chief minister.
It gave a clear indication of the shape of things to follow, he said implying that there would be massive horse-trading. Asked if his party would move the courts against the moves to split BSP MLAs in Uttar Pradesh, he said that a decision in this regard would be taken by the party leadership.
Bureau Report
"Everybody knows that BJP and Mulayam Singh Yadav are doing all this and they are using money and all kinds of pressure tactics to split BSP," he said.
Alvi said that since Uttar Pradesh Governor Vishnu Kant Shastri gave Yadav 14 days' time to prove his majority in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, "not only money, but everything is being used" to lure BSP legislators. Stating that all kinds of pressure was being exerted on the family members of his party MLAs, he said "it is absolutely unconstitutional and against democratic norms.
Alvi said that many big industrialists had attended the function where Mulayam Singh Yadav was sworn-in as chief minister.
It gave a clear indication of the shape of things to follow, he said implying that there would be massive horse-trading. Asked if his party would move the courts against the moves to split BSP MLAs in Uttar Pradesh, he said that a decision in this regard would be taken by the party leadership.
Bureau Report