RPD to support Mayawati govt: demands probe into political killings

Lucknow, May 23(UNI) Rashtriya Parivartan Dal(RPD) supremo and newly elected MLA D P Yadav today extended his unconditional support to the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh with demanding a high-level probe into the political killings in Badaun district during the past Samajwadi Party regime.

Talking to mediapersons, Mr Yadav, whose son is involved in the infamous Nitish Katara murder case, said that his support to the present UP government would be on merits but without any condition.

Though denying that his party will be merged with the BSP in near future or he will join the Mayawati ministry, he said the people of state has given clear mandate to the BSP in the assembly polls and now everyone should accept the reality.

Demanding a high level probe into the killing at least nine people in Badaun district during the previous SP regime, Mr Yadav said the government should also order impartial investigation on how the farmers of Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad were forced to give up their lands to the government which had been acquired for some vested industrialists.

RPD has two member in the assembly-- D P Yadav and his wife Umlesh Yadav-- while they have the support of two other independent MLAs Yashpal Singh Rawat from Sahjanwa in Gorakhpur district and Ram Prakash Yadav from Jasrana in Firozabad district.

UNI