Mulayam hints at withdrawing support to UPA

Jaunpur, UP, July 2 (UNI) Samajwadi Party supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav today said his party would ponder withdrawing support to the Congress-led central government, ''since it had failed to take on the opportunistic forces.'' ''SP had supported the UPA government to fight communal forces, but it has utterly failed to do so,'' he claimed.

Blaming the Centre for prevailing high prices of essential commodities in the country, Mr Yadav said whenever Congress came to power, inflation had skyrocketted.

''Even, Congress is worried about inflation now and is acting like an opposition party to put pressure on the central government to curb high prices.'' The CM lamented that Congress always talked about decimating SP, but would only fall flat in its endeavour.

''Congress has never believed in democracy and always tries to supress democratic institutions,'' he observed.

Asserting that his party never indulged in caste-based politics for consolidating vote bank, he listed the achievements of his government and maintained he had fulfilled all the promises made in the SP manifesto.

Replying to another question, the CM underlined that the UP assembly polls would be held on time and SP activists had completed all the ground work in wake of the elections.

The CM was here in connection with a private engagement.

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