Mulayam govt ready for trust vote after SC ruling

Lucknow, Feb 15: The Ruling Samajwadi Party today said the Mulayam Singh Yadav government was ready for a fresh trust vote in the assembly after yesterday's Supreme Court verdict disqualifying 13 MLAs of the Loktrantrik Bahujan Dal (LBD).

Senior party leader and state Agriculture Minister Ashok Bajpai said here the government was enjoying majorty from the day, when it came to power in 2003.

Refusing to concede to the Opposition's demand to step down on moral grounds, Mr Bajpai, narrating the incidents of Jharkhand and Karnataka, said, ''where were the morals, when these national parties formed governments through undemocratic means.'' Questioning the BJP's demand of resignation of Mr Yadav, he said the the entire eposide was approved by then speaker Keshri Nath Tripathi, who is the state BJP president now.

''How can they have double standards, demanding resignation on one hand and approving the same in the past,'' he noted.

UNI