It has asked the party leaders not to get provoked by his loaded statements to issue any reactions as the UPA govt has to bank on his support to stave off problems Mamata Banerjee may create in Parliament.
The Congress is treading cautiously to Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav’s postures of seeking mid-term polls and his talks of grabbing power at the Centre following an impressive show in the recently concluded polls in Uttar Pradesh.
It has asked the party leaders not to get provoked by his loaded statements to issue any reactions as the UPA government has to bank on his support to stave off problems Mamata Banerjee may create in Parliament.
“Let us not give him an opportunity to translate his mid-term poll into a reality by entering into a war of words with him, so long as he does not start attacking the government and the Congress directly,” a senior Congress leader said. He said the leadership has also snubbed some party leaders pursuing SP to join the UPA government as it exposes the party’s weakness and emboldens Mulayam to start bragging.
Where is the question of any talks with Mulayam after his outlandish call to the SP workers that “after the victory in the 2012 assembly elections, our next target is grabbing (power) at Delhi in the next Lok Sabha elections for which all workers would have to start preparations from now.” Supporting the government from outside is his compulsion and the Congress should remain contended with it, the party leader said.
Mulayam also knows that votes in UP cannot make him the PM, no matter even if the SP wins all 80 seats, but he is making such statements since Congress leaders started looking at him to rescue the government, the party leader said. He said the leadership thinks the party will be committing a suicide if it tries for any tie up with Mulayam at the present stage since he would press for an electoral alliance at the same terms whenever elections are held and that will further weaken the Congress in UP. The Congress at district-level was wiped out once when then party chief Sitaram Kesari had made an electoral deal with the BSP in 90s.
A post-poll analysis by the party’s general secretaries blames the recent defeat to the “strategic mistakes” and selection of wrong candidates rather the party machinery. They believe there was force in the Rahul Gandhi’s argument to concentrate on building own party machinery rather depend on others.
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