VP demands dismissal of Mulayam Government

New Delhi, Feb 16: Accusing Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav of being hand in glove with the BJP, former Prime Minister and Jan Morcha founder leader VP Singh today demanded dismissal of his government in Uttar Pradesh in the wake of the Supreme Court Judgement disqualifying 13 BSP MLAs.

Mr Singh also demanded early elections in the state.

The MLAs, along with 13 others, had defected from their party to support the Mulayam Singh Government in 2003.

''The apex court judgement leaves no one in doubt that the Samajwadi party-led government in the state was illegally constituted with the full collusion of the BJP,'' Mr Singh told a news conference here.

With the disqualification of the 13 MLAs, the remaining 24 also stand disqualified, a situation in which the governnor could dismiss his government, he said.

Mr Singh said that if the SP government remained in power in Uttar Pradesh, no free and fair elections were possible.

If the Mulayam government is not dismissed, it would set up a bad precedent and ecourage the kind of horsetrading and mechanisations that were resorted to by the SP chief to form the government, he said.

The former Prime Minister said that he had never been in favour of the use of Article 356 against any state government, but the Mulayam Singh government was a fit case for dismissal after the Supreme Court judgement.

UNI

Related Stories