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Acid test for Mulayam, Mayawati: Azad

SRINAGAR, APRIL 29. Expressing the confidence that the Congress and its allies will form the next government at the Centre, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said hung Parliament will be an acid test for the BSP and the SP.

There is now no doubt that the Congress and its allies will form the next government at the Centre as the NDA will face rout in Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, Mr Azad, who is also Pradesh Congress Committee president, told reporters here this afternoon.

He said the Congress and its allies would sweep the polls in these states while we will do better in Orissa also.

When asked if there will be a hung Parliament, he said that we and our allies would get the majority to form the government. However, in case of hung Parliament it will be an acid test for Mr Mulayam Singh and Ms Mayawati.

Both of them have time and again announced that they will not extend their support to the BJP-led government at the Centre, he said and added if they want to see a secular government they will have to prove their secular image.

Mr Azad who campaigned in different states for the party candidates said despite all the hurdles created by the government in Andhra Pradesh, the Congress will make a clean sweep in the assembly and the Lok Sabha polls.

``We will get two-third majority in the assembly and get more than 36 seats in the state'', he claimed.

However, he said all the credit goes to the Election Commission who deleted the names of about 90 lakh bogus voters in the electoral rolls there.

Questioning the `India Shining' slogan of the BJP, he said 4500 farmers committed suicide during the NDA rule.

The Supreme Court has expressed no confidence in the BJP government in Gujarat and AIADMK in Tamil Nadu and transferred cases to Maharashtra and Karnataka.

Twenty-two women died in the stampede during the saree distribution in the Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Lucknow constituency and still the India is shining, he said. -- UNI

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