All ganging up against Mulayam, will seek Kalam's intervention: SP

New Delhi, Feb 17 (UNI) In the face of the mounting pressure from the Congress, the BJP and some other parties for the dismissal of the Mulayam Singh Government, the Samajawadi Party today said it would be taking the matter to the President, ''as everybody has ganged up against the state government.'' ''It should be clear to all that the Supreme Court judgment on the BSP MLAs has not questioned the legitimacy of his government, so no one has to the right to declare it illegal,'' SP general secretary Amar Singh told a hurriedly called news conference here tonight.

''The apex court has disqualified only the 13 MLAs, and has not said anything about the remaining 24, whose fate will be decided either the Speaker or the Court, but not by the Congress and its friends,'' he said Making a scathing attack on governor TV Rajeswar, Mr Singh accused him of misusing his constitutional post and was acting on the advice of Congress and BSP spokespersons instead of seeking the advice of constitutional experts.

Earlier, in the day Congress leaders Kapil Sibal, Abhishek Manu Singhvi and UPCC chief Salman Khurshid had contended that the Supreme Court judgement automatically implied that the remaining 24 MLAs had been disqualified too, rendering the constitution of the Mulayam Singh Government illegitimate.

Expressing similar views, Jana Morcha leaders VP Singh and Raj Babbar had also demanded that the government should be sacked without delay.

The SP general secretary said everybody had ganged up against the Mulayam Singh government, and party leaders would soon be meeting President Kalam to apprise him of the situation.

Mr Singh said ''Congress and its new found friends like Mr VP Singh were asking for murder of the Mulayam Singh government without even a semblance of trial, thus acting worse than the US which hanged Saddam Hussain at least after a trial, however unfair that might be.'' He claimed that his goverment still enjoyed the support of 247 MLAs when the government was formed, and so even if the whole 37 BSP MLAs were taken out, the government still had 210 members with it.

''If the government has any doubt about these number, he should consult the Raj Bhawan secretariat records and find that at the time of formation of the government, the SP enjoyed the support of 247,'' said Mr Singh.

The SP leader also attacked Mr VP Singh for accusing his party of having a nexus with the BJP, saying that Mr Singh had enjoyed prime ministership only with the BJP support and his government at the Centre fell down the moment the party withdrew its support.

''It was not becoming for such a person that the SP ws acting in tandem with the BJP. It was the SP in the state which dislodged the BJP from power in the state,'' he said.

He said the Congress leaders should not teach lessons of morality to the SP ''as they should not forget how the Narsimha Rao's minority government had survived.'' UNI