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BJP's `chargesheet' against Mulayam Government

By J P Shukla

LUCKNOW, APRIL. 20. The Bharatiya Janata Party today released a "charge sheet'' against the Uttar Pradesh Government headed by the Samajwadi Party leader, Mulayam Singh Yadav, holding the present regime responsible for a spurt in crimes. The document released at a news conference at the State BJP office here by Kalraj Mishra, presented a date-wise list of crimes of various nature, including murders, dacoities, rapes and kidnappings, committed in the State during the seven- month rule of the Samajwadi Party. The "charge-sheet'' also highlighted aberrations in the policy decisions of the State Government and its failures on various counts. Mr Mishra said the list of crimes prepared on the basis of reports as appearing in newspapers had proved that U.P. had been converted in "apradh pradesh'' (province of crimes). The police and criminals had joined hands to victimise the common people and no one was safe in the present rule. "This is the worst governance that U.P. has ever seen'', the BJP leader added.

Attacking the policy decisions of the State Government, Mr Mishra said the UP Development Council created by Mr Yadav was in fact an instrument to benefit select few industrialists at the cost of Government resources. Such decisions of the Development Council as allowing private builders to develop high-tech cities, generate power and take over Government- owned sugar mills were only to help e industrialists and the not the common people. The implementation of the housing policy would make it impossible for the poor to own houses and privatisation of power generation would make electricity unreasonably costlier.

Mr Mishra said that the State Government was making all efforts to vitiate the electoral atmosphere and apprehended that rigging by the ruling party might not allow the elections to remain free and fair. When pointed out that the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, had expressed the opinion that Mulayam Singh Yadav was ideologically closer to the BJP, Mr Mishra said the Prime Minister had only mentioned that on certain questions such as the foreign origin issue and defence of the country the SP and the BJP held similar view points. Mr Vajpayee never talked of ideological closeness of the SP with the BJP, he added.

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