Patna, Oct 13: Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav today charged the NDA government the Centre with being ''remote controlled'' by foreign powers and described the three-year rule of the A B Vajpayee ministry as a ''black chapter'' in the annals of Indian democracy.

''Vajpayee government is dancing to the tune of foreign powers and multinationals and they are 'remote controlling' the Indian economy and external affairs,'' Yadav, a former union minister, who was here to attend the shradh cermony of the secretary-general of the party Kapildeo Singh, told reporters at the Patna airport. Economic policies pursued by the Centre are dictated by multinationals and they are completely opposed to the development of the indigenous industries, he said citing India's stand on WTO and other issues. Asserting that the Centre's economic policy was directionless, he said that farmers, businessmen, service class and common people were suffering as the economic decisions were being implemented to suit interests of multinationals.

Ridiculing the Centre's trumpeted resolve to end terrorism, Yadav alleged that the cross-border terrorism and incidents of terrorist attacks had increased during the present rule.

This is why the people of Jammu and Kashmir discarded the BJP during the recently concluded assembly elections though it played the ''Hindutva card''.

The Samajwadi Party chief ruled out the possibility of any kind of electoral alliance with the RJD in the next elections. Bureau Report