When you've tasted blood, go the whole hog seems to be the trope Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav is living by.
When you’ve tasted blood, go the whole hog seems to be the trope Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav is living by. A day after he called the Congress a party of cheats and thugs, he took on two prospective prime ministerial candidates of the NDA — Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar — on Thursday, saying their governments in Gujarat and Bihar, respectively, are no role models of development.
He then dropped a bombshell, claiming to a gathering of party workers at the SP state headquarters here that he had “inside information” that the Lok Sabha polls will be held in November.
Prime minister Manmohan Singh, however, ruled out early elections, saying his government is stable.
Reiterating that a Third Front will hold the key to government formation after the elections, Yadav said neither Congress nor BJP will then be able to call the shots at the Centre.
“Samajwadi Party must exploit this opportunity.”
Later, he tore into Modi’s development plank, alleging that he had done nothing for farmers, women or minorities in his state. “I fail to understand all the hype being generated about Narendra Modi. He has done nothing exemplary...” On Kumar, he said all that the Bihar CM had done was to “fill up potholes”.
The BJP reacted sharply. “The SP says the Congress is a party of cheats, but it continues to support its government in Delhi,” BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy told reporters in Delhi.
Political watchers suspect Yadav’s posturing indicates that he is trying to keep a safe distance from BJP. “He is trying to balance his recent remarks in BJP’s favour,” said a senior journalist. “He does not want to risk losing the minority votebank.”
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