SP says Maya forcing its leaders to join BSP
Anand Raj Singh
First Published : 16 Jul 2010 03:11:44 AM ISTLast Updated : 16 Jul
2010 09:03:54 AM IST
LUCKNOW: In the wake of the murderous attack on the Uttar Pradesh
Minister for Institutional Finance, Stamp and Judicial Tax, Nand Gopal
Gupta 'Nandi', in Allahabad on July 3, many musclemen political
leaders belonging to the Samajwadi Party have disclosed that there is
tremendous pressure on them to join the ruling party, or face
unpredictable consequences in the coming days.
The SP leadership has also alleged that BSP supremo and Chief Minister
Mayawati was abusing her powers to arm-twist MLAs with criminal record
to bring them to the BSP fold.
Senior SP leadership claims that over 10,000 party members have been
forced to join the BSP.
The police implicate SP leaders in false cases and then force them to
join the BSP, the leadership claims.
"Mayawati believes that she can win 2012 Assembly elections by taming
the SP leaders. But that is not going to happen," Mulayam's brother
and SP legislature party leader Shivpal Singh Yadav told Express.
SP spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said, "We have met Governor B L
Joshi twice in the last two months and apprised him how the state
government is trying to blackmail our leaders."
SP leaders claim Mayawati has employed a carrot-and-stick policy to
tame her political rivals across the state and get them to dump her
bête noire, Mulayam Singh Yadav, to gain political mileage.
And, not very surprisingly, quite a few are very much inclined to
curry favour with the ruling party regime, to ensure security of
freedom from the law at least till the dispensation changes. The
Special Task Force (STF) in January registered a case against Sultan
Beg, the SP MLA from Kawar in Bareilly district, for allegedly running
a gang of vehicle thieves.
He was later arrested under the Gangster Act. With the police
vigorously pursuing the case against him, Beg is now set to join the
BSP in the hope of getting the investigating officers off his back.
Beg's wife Dilshad Jahan Begum, sister-in-law Shahanaz Begum and
brother Suleman Beg have already joined the BSP. Some say that Beg
will work for the party without joining it, at least until the ticket
distribution for the elections are over, so as not to take any
chances.
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