Mulayam slams PM for offering help to US

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Mulayam slams PM for offering help to US

 

 

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

 

UCKNOW: Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav has slammed

Prime Minister Vajpayee for offering support to the US in its efforts

to nab Osama bin Laden. He said India should not be involved in

the 'war'.

 

Yadav said it was strange on India's part to volunteer support to the

US without the US even asking for it. Addressing a press conference

on Monday, Yadav said his party condemned terrorism, but wondered why

the US should be offered support when it had chosen to remain quiet

in the past over the killings in Kashmir. He said the US should first

acknowledge that Pakistan was aiding terrorism in Kashmir. Stressing

that India should not be involved in the 'war', the SP president said

in the long run, it would prove detrimental to the interests of the

country.

 

Referring to the wide coverage given by the Indian media to the

blasting of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Yadav said

calamities of similar dimensions in the country did not merit a

similar treatment by the American Press.

 

While talking about Uttar Pradesh, he reiterated his demand for the

dissolution of the state assembly and the imposition of President's

rule. Yadav said MLAs of other opposition parties like the Congress

and the BSP should also submit resignations like the SP MLAs did. He

said the SP workers would be holding demonstrations at all district

headquarters for the dismissal of the Rajnath Singh government.

 

The SP chief welcomed former BJP MLA Ravindra Pratap Chowdhary of

Siddhartnagar into the SP fold. Chowdhary had resigned from the BJP

on Monday morning and joined the SP. He cited the anti-people and

anti-farmer policies of the BJP government as reasons for quitting.