Mulayam cites sops, blasts Congress

DADRI: Mulayam Singh Yadav believes that without Samajwadi Party's (SP) support, a government will not be formed at the Centre. He has predicted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will fail to get the required seats to form a majority while SP will emerge as the largest party in Uttar Pradesh.
Addressing a rally held to woo voters to choose SP candidate Narendra Bhati for the Gautam Budh Nagar parliamentary seat, the SP chief said that voters should pick his party because it would provide free education to all up to degrees in medicine and technology.Yadav also promised many sops, including homes to members of the Press.
Arriving two hours after schedule, Singh spoke for nearly 45 minutes to a gathering of more than 2,500 supporters.
Taking a jibe at Bhati, Yadav said, "I had told him to improve his language and he has done so. Do not vote for him, vote for me".
Appealing to the public to vote for SP, Yadav said that the electorate had the power to take the party to the Centre. "Our party will fight for farmers, Muslims, landless labourers and the minority," Yadav said.
He predicted that SP would win 70 of the 80 seats in UP, and because of rising inflation and poor foreign policies of Congress, his party would form a government like it did in UP in 2012 owing to popular Muslim support. He added that the Muzaffarnagar riots were an unfortunate incident.
Slamming the UPA government, Yadav came down heavily on Congress for its anti-poor policies. He also slammed the party's foreign policy which, he believed, had left India with no friends in the world. Yadav said that Congress was in a hurry to rule India and so India and Pakistan were divided.
"If India and Pakistan were one today, no one would have been able to defeat us," he said, adding that China had been responsible for Pandit Nehru's death.
Eyeing the PM's chair and aiming to win over the farmers, the SP supremo also said that his policies would be farmer-centric. "No farmer will have to mortgage his land, whatever his loan," Singh said.
PG exams affected by rally: While supporters began gathering as early as 10am, 40 students were appearing for an examination at the venue, Mihir Bhoj Inter College, at the same time. The MA (Economics) exam was scheduled from 10am to 2pm, during which party supporters were noisily created a huge ruckus while campaigning for Bhati.