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End `Mulayam raj': Jan Morcha

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Raj Babbar's call to finish the rule of political brokers and fixers in the State

LUCKNOW: The Jan Morcha on Wednesday resolved to free Uttar Pradesh from `Mulayam raj' and finish the rule of `political brokers and fixers'.

The Jan Morcha and its alliance partners took out a march from Kakori, about 15 kilometres from the State Capital, which culminated at the Vidhan Bhawan building where the marchers, led by the president of Jan Morcha Alliance, Raj Babbar, staged a sit in.

The march was organised in protest against the "anti-farmers" and "anti-people" policies of the Samajwadi Party Government. Before reaching the dharna site, the Jan Morcha supporters cleaned the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the Allahabad Bank crossing in Hazratganj.

Addressing the marchers, Mr Babbar said he would garland the statue of the Father of the Nation only after fulfilling the Morcha's objective of seeing the ouster of the Mulayam Singh Yadav government.

The Jan Morcha president said the present government was in the stranglehold of `political fixers' and his party was trying to save the State from further harm.

Later, talking to newsmen, the Jan Morcha Alliance president announced that the `Mukti Sangram' (freedom struggle) has been launched from Wednesday, and said that struggle would be taken to its logical conclusion. Mr Babbar said the next stage in the `mukti sangram' is the farmers' march to Dadri on August 17. He stated that farmers from all over the country would participate in the Dadri padyatara.

He said conventions and meetings of youth and minorities would be organized at the interval of 10 days.

Mr Babbar said Jan Morcha had resolved to save Uttar Pradesh from the machinations of the `rashtriya dalal'.

He said the `broker' had emerged as the Samajwadi party's mascot.

He accused the State Government of making plans for acquiring one lakh acres of farmers' land and said that the Special Economic Zone policy announced recently was a façade for robbing the State of its resources.

The Communist Party of India, Rashtravadi Communist Party, National Loktantrik Party and Indian Justice Party participated in the march and dharna.

UNI reports

The CPI leader, Ashok Mishra, said the Mulayam Government was embroiled in various scams.

``If a CBI probe into these scams is conducted, most ruling party politicians and several officials will land up in jail. We would ensure a CBI probe is held,'' he asserted.

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