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UPA government most arrogant: Mulayam

HARDOI, SEPT. 29. The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mulayam Singh Yadav, today alleged that since independence, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) has been the most "high-handed and arrogant" government at the Centre.

"This is the first government in Delhi which is so arrogant in its functioning" Mr. Yadav said before an election meeting here in favour of Samajwadi Party candidate for by-elections to Ahirauri assembly seat.

The Congress should not forget that the Samajwadi Party, by winning 36 Lok Sabha seats and pushing the BJP to a corner in U.P., made its path easier to form the government, he said.

While the left parties could win only 41 seats after contesting almost everywhere in the country, the SP managed to win so many seats in one State alone, he said adding position of the Congress has remained the same as left by P.V. Narasimha Rao.

The SP president further said if U.P. was still ranked as one of most poor states of the country, then parties who ruled the State for 44 years in the past must shoulder the blame.

Mr. Yadav denied allegations that the official machinery was being misused to benefit the ruling party in the by-elections to one Lok Sabha seat and 12 Vidhan Sabha seats in the State.

He pointed out that the world's biggest gas-based power plant was being set up at Dadri in western U.P. and within two years, it would start generating 12,000 MW power. -- UNI

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