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Mulayam: Maya rule worse than emergency
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ASIANAGE on 27 June, 2008 02:29:44
 
By Amita Verma
Lucknow
June 27: Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav has said that the
Mayawati regime in Uttar Pradesh was worse than the Emergency imposed by the
Congress.
Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Mr Yadav said that one lakh
persons had been arrested in the country during Emergency. In Mayawati's regime,
more than one lakh Samajwadi Party workers have already been arrested. During
the Emergency, the families of arrested persons were never targeted but now even
the families are not being spared," he said and added that the firing on
students in Sefai in Etawah, earlier this year, was worse than the Jallianwala
Bagh incident in terms of police atrocities. Mr Yadav mounted a blistering
attack on the UP chief minister and said that as soon as Mayawati stepped out of
power, she would have to go to jail. "This government is crossing all limits
when it comes to political vendetta. The media has also been intimidated to such
an extent that no one is willing to write the truth. However, after the Lok
Sabha elections, the countdown will begin," he said.
To a question on the Sahara-Mayawati fracas, Mr Yadav said the UP government
had scant respect for the judiciary. "The action against Sahara will ensure that
no industrialist invests in UP in future. I have seen how 20 top officials
personally supervised the demolition in Sahara Shaher and we are making a list
of officers who exceed their brief. All of them will face action after the
change of guard in UP," he warned.