Mayawati's distance from BJP a pretence: Samajwadi Party
Submitted by Tarique Anwar on 2 July 2008 - 6:57pm.
By IANS,
Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati was pretending to distance herself from the Bharatiya Janata Party to solicit support from the Muslim voters, the Samajwadi Party's state unit acting president Shivpal Singh Yadav alleged here Wednesday.
"Mayawati and her BSP (Bahujan Samaj Party) government are anti-Muslim. The fact that Mayawati actively participated in the election campaign of BJP leader Narendra Modi in Gujarat shows BSP-BJP closeness and the party's anti-Muslim policy," Yadav told reporters.
He said that since Mayawati has formed her government three times by joining hands with BJP, no one should believe her claims to not have an alliance with the party in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, he added.
Yadav said that SP would hold protests against the state government's move to "grab" a piece of land for setting up a university for the handicapped.
"A decades-old mosque stands on the land where the government plans to establish the varsity. Our protest against the land grab will start from tomorrow (Thursday)," he added.
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India and Nuclear Deal
Demand to declare the deal as anti national is one thing while Mayawati's call for opposing the deal as anti Muslim is very serious thing. Mayawati is puppet of BJP. At one stage BJP wanted to finalise the deal from the very begining but after the issue of Ram Setu erupted BJP changed its stand. When our scientists have emphasized that thorium present in the channel of Ram Setu is sufficient for our nuclear requirement then where is need to proceed with the deal? Though I fully agree with the Muslim clerics when they say " "Any alignment with US imperialism to impose unipolarity will dissolve India's distinctiveness in world politics." but terming the deal to be anti-Muslim as proclaimed by Mayawati is not in the interest of Indian Muslims. India voting against Iran is required to be understood in the context of Iran-Pakistan relations and the capability of Pakistan's scientist Khan. India was right in voting against Iran. Not finalising the deal by India will be branded as Muslim appeasement. Therefore Muslims should condemn Mayawati for making the deal issue as anti Muslims but at the same time should oppose the deal as anti national.