Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Rajnath Singh has ruled out the possibility of dissolving the state assembly under pressure from any opposition parties.
Addressing a public meeting at Charra, 40 km from Aligarh, Singh said the opposition Samajwadi Party (SP) MLAs had resigned from the state assembly as they lacked moral courage to face the house after his government had implemented the new reservation policy. He strongly criticised the SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav for opposing the ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), he said.
The Samajwadi Party is opposing the ban just for the sake of electoral gains, The chief minister said, adding the SP opposition to the SIMI ban would only encourage the anti-national forces.
Lauding the stand taken by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on combating terrorism, Singh said, Pakistan knows that as long as Vajpayee is in the office, they can never succeed in their designs on kashmir. Bureau Report