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Mulayam seeks Congress support against BSP

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Meets Governor and demands probe into killing of student

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MEMORANDUM: Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav handing over a memorandum to the U.P. Governor T.V. Rajeswar regarding police firing on students in Etawah, at the Raj Bhavan in Lucknow on Sunday.

LUCKNOW: With an eye on next year’s Lok Sabha elections, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party president, Mulayam Singh, has sought the Congress Party’s support in the political struggle against the Bahujan Samaj Party Government of Mayawati in the State. Mr. Singh, who met the Governor, T.V. Rajeswar on Sunday and demanded a high-level inquiry into the killing of a Saifai student, Mukesh Yadav on January 9 said if action is not taken against the guilty policemen he would approach the UPA Government.

The former Chief Minister announced that the Samajwadi Party’s non-violent protest against the BSP regime would continue.

He warned the Chief Minister, Mayawati that taking on the Samajwadis would not be an easy task.

Not only did Mr. Singh seek the Congress’s support, he asked the “courageous” BSP Ministers to step out of the Government and join his campaign against the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister. He expressed his willingness to take the support of even the Bharatiya Janata Party.

In fact, Mr. Singh urged Mr. Rajeswar to visit Saifai ( Mr. Mulayam’s home village ) on a fact-finding mission.

In a memorandum submitted to the Governor, Mr. Singh demanded the suspension and arrest of the Etawah SSP, SR Aditya and the Additional SSP, Rampal Gautam. He accused the police officials of masterminding the degree student’s killing in the Chaudhary Charan Singh Post Graduate College, Haivra in Saifai. The former CM also demanded the release of 19 Samajwadi Chhatra Sabha members incarcerated in the Lucknow district jail.

Stating that the police had refused to file the FIR in the shooting case, Mr. Singh later told newspersons that pressure was being applied on the Saifia police by the Chief Minister, the DG Police, , Cabinet Secretary and the Principal Secretary, Home.

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