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Mulayam should quit: Mayawati

Atiq Khan

LUCKNOW : Bahujan Samaj Party president and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday said that by allowing her party's writ petition filed before the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court seeking the disqualification of 37 defector MLAs, there was no doubt that they had lost their membership of the Assembly.

Referring to the Supreme Court judgment, Ms. Mayawati, attacked the Samajwadi Party for "misleading" the media by stating that only 13 MLAs had been disqualified.

Addressing a press conference, she said Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav should have resigned on moral grounds.

From the judgment it was clear that while 13 MLAs have been disqualified with effect from August 27, 2003, the remaining were disqualified from September 6, 2003.

A memorandum submitted to Governor T.V. Rajeswar by leader of the BSP Legislature Party Swami Prasad Maurya demanded dismissal of the State Government. It said salaries and allowances paid to the Ministers from among the defector group should be recovered with penalty, and all policy decisions be reviewed.

The BSP national general secretary Satish Chandra Mishra, said there was no scope for a floor test as the case were different from the Bommai case.

Earlier, a Congress delegation led by State president Salman Khurshid, met the Governor and handed over a memorandum urging Mr. Rajeswar to take appropriate steps to save Utar Pradesh "from the continuing oppression of an illegal Government."

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