Congress looking for allies in Uttar Pradesh: BJP

By IANS,

Shahjahanpur (Uttar Pradesh) : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley Wednesday said the Congress was trying to find allies in Uttar Pradesh as it was losing some of its partners in the central government.

"Becoming the tail of the SP or BSP in any alliance is but natural for the Congress. You can clearly get this indication from their leaders," Jaitley said even as seven-phased assembly polls began in the state Wednesday.

"The central alliance is losing the numbers of support and is likely to lose more. Some allies are threatening them again and again, so they are looking towards the Uttar Pradesh polls to fulfil the numbers," Jaitley said, referring to the Trinamool Congress, which has recently not seen eye to eye with the Congress on some issues.

Jaitley expressed full confidence that the BJP's strength in the state would increase.

"We believe our strength will increase and we will dictate the politics of the future in Uttar Pradesh," he said.

Other key leaders across the state also slammed the Congress, the SP and the BSP.

"Not only have corruption and price rise prevailed under the Congress-led government's rule, they have also committed another sin, the sin of sowing the seeds of another partition of India," Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said.

"The constitution does not allow reservation on religious grounds because its drafters knew that the partition had taken place due to reservation on religious grounds. That is why, they did not permit such a move in the constitution," she told a gathering in Gorakhpur.