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My Government will last full term, says Mulayam

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, MARCH 10. The Samajwadi Party president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mulayam Singh Yadav, today said he did not apprehend President's rule in his State against the background of the recent political developments in Goa and his strained relations with the Congress.

"I don't think the Congress will go that far. My Government is stable and will complete its full term," he asserted, after admitting the former Karnataka Chief Minister, S. Bangarappa, into the Samajwadi Party and making him president of the Karnataka unit of the SP. Mr. Bangarappa, who resigned his Bharatiya Janata Party Lok Sabha seat today, said he left the BJP as he was feeling "stifled" and the party showed no signs of "amending" its communal credentials.

Answering questions, Mr. Yadav said his meeting today with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader, Harkishan Singh Surjeet, was routine, but added that the possibility of a third front was "gaining ground." In Bihar, the State unit would support an anti-Rashtriya Janata Dal and anti-BJP formation and he supported that view.

On Uttar Pradesh's reluctance to implement the Value-Added Tax from April 1, Mr. Yadav said he had set up a three-member committee representing traders and industrialists. It comprised Banwarilal Kanchal, Amar Singh and Surendra Mohan Agarwal. "Unless this committee recommends, VAT shall not be implemented in the State," he said. The committee's report was expected in a week.

To a question, Mr. Yadav denied that his party offered to admit the Shiv Sena leader, Sanjay Nirupam, who quit his party on Wednesday.

Earlier, Mr. Bangarappa said he had quit his primary membership of the BJP and his Lok Sabha seat "on moral grounds." He said he was opting out of the BJP as it was not secular and showed no signs of correcting itself. He had joined the party ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in November last. There is a view that the Karnataka leader is unhappy over being denied the presidentship of the Karnataka BJP.

Mr. Bangarappa hailed Mr. Yadav for bringing down the BJP from 50 seats to nine in Uttar Pradesh.

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