Feud diversionary tactic, Mulayam should quit politics: BSP

Terming the ongoing family feud in the ruling Yadav clan in Uttar Pradesh a "diversionary" tactics, BSP chief Mayawati today advised SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to quit politics in the interest of the state and its people.
She asked the Samajwadi Party chief to get over his love for his son and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and take 'sanyas' from active politics.
She said there are dozens of people in the Yadav family who are active in politics and all have their "own personal interests".
"Reports of internal feud in the family keep emanating from time to time but at election time they appear to be a drama to divert people's attention," she said.

The ruling Yadav family in the state is facing political and family rift after Mulayam replaced Akhilesh with Shivpal Yadav as party's state chief. Akhilesh in turn divested his uncle Shivpal of key portfolios.
"But if there is any truth in these reports (of family feud), Mulayam should shun active politics get over his love for his son (putra-moh tyag)...This will be in the interest of the state and its people," Mayawati said at an meeting of her party coordinators and office-bearers here.

Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Yadav retorted asking her to keep her suggestions to herself.
"Her suggestions are not important for us...Our party is not run as per her suggestions...She should keep it for her own organisation," Yadav told newspersons when his comment was sought on Mayawati's advice.

The BSP chief also gave directions to her partymem and told them the coming polls will be contested highlighting the "casteist, corrupt and wrong policies" of the SP government.
She said they party will also highlight the "failure" of Narendra Modi government in bringing 'achchhe din' and its "anti-poor and anti-farmers policies, and patronage to extremist elements".
She attacked Congress also saying it was in a very bad shape in the state because of which its top leaders were forced to hold "rath yatra, padyatra and khat yatra".
Referring to the ED crackdown on her brother and his bank
accounts, she said, "Under a planned conspiracy, money deposited in the banks by our party and some members of my family in a routine manner, as per rules, is being highlighted by BJP and the central government in the media as if it was related to black money."

"I have already said if BJP and Modi have any honesty and are totally clean they need to make public bank details of 10 month preceding note ban and also till date of all their leaders and industrialist confidants as also how much has been spent on different works which have not been done till now," she said.
Attacking the Central government for its "immature decision of note ban" she said, the result of this campaign with details of how much black money and fake currency have been detected and how many corrupt people have been nabbed should have been made public but as this has not been done it gives strength to doubts about the "intention" of note ban.

"BJP and Modi as per the RSS agenda want to go two steps ahead of Congress and have therefore adopted dictatorial attitude rendering 90 per cent people penniless and over 150 people dead while facing hardships of note ban ... They should be ready to face its consequences in the coming Assembly polls," she said, adding that "after its 'achchey din' promise, BJP should be prepared for 'burey din' (bad days)."
Stressing that BJP has no moral right to level allegations against opponents and their family members and their business, she said its has crossed all limits of decency following political rivalry and started making such allegations just before the Assembly elections.

"Keeping in mind the strength of BSP and demoralisation among cadres and to check it from coming to power, charges are made against the party or family members and are being highlighted with the help of certain media houses which are managed," she alleged.
Mayawati said her family members had been doing their small business since the past several years but BJP found the shortcomings in them only at election time although they had been at the helm at the Centre for the past over two years.
Recalling that her party has always emerged stronger whenever such allegations have been levelled against its leaders, Mayawati said she will no longer give any explanation on it.

She also released the 12th edition of her book "A travelogue of my struggle-ridden life and BSP movement" regarded as "blue book" in her party on the occasion of her birthday.
Making a scathing attack on national leaders of BJP and
its spokespersons, Mayawati said if they were so keen on knowing the property details of the BSP national president and her family they need to shun their "casteist" and "narrow mindset" and demand making public the bank details of 300 top leaders of the country and their families before and after they entered politics.
"This will also bring out the property details of BJP leaders and their families and people will be able to do justice with all," she said.

The BSP chief said people have not been able to overcome from the shock of note ban and they become alarmed every time Modi makes a speech or there is talk about budget, feeling that a new problem might come their way.
"This government wrongly attaches all its works with nationalism and patriotism," she said, adding that not only jawans were dying at the borders, the number of farmers committing suicide has also gone up since this government came to power.
Making an appeal to her partymen in states other than where elections are being held to observe her birthday as 'Jan Kalyankari Diwas' (people's welfare day) and extend monetary help to people smarting under the note ban, Mayawati warned people against the fake promises made by political opponents like Congress.

"All parties are making false promises and Congress which is on oxygen in the state has also done the same during it rath yatra and khat sabhas," she said, adding that these were mere election allurements as Congress did nothing despite being in power both at the Centre and the state for maximum time.
Mayawati called upon her partymen to help BSP come to
power with full majority in the state and ensure better performance in Uttarakhand and Punjab since the last time as her true birthday gift.
"There is immense anger among the 22 crore people of the state as the poll promises of Lok Sabha elections are now even out of central government's agenda...," she said, adding that in the initial stages they enacted dramas linked to culture, extremism, surgical strike with the help of their friendly party SP with which they have a tacit understanding.

Out of desperation they brought demonetisation, she said adding that people believe that ten months before note ban BJP leaders and industrialists "converted" their black money into white.
Drawing a parallel between functioning of BJP and Congress, she said the present government is proving to be the one which betrayed people's aspirations and crushed old traditions and norms and so they should remain prepared to pay its price and ready to face consequences as Congress had to face for working against the "jan apeksha".
Lashing out at BJP for using Ambedkar's name, she said people will not fall prey to these designs of "befooling" Dalits.

Saying that unlike other parties who offer allurements in manifesto which they do not keep, she said that BSP does not believe in having a poll manifesto as it wants to work instead of making tall promises.
She said on coming to power, her government will no longer construct museums and memorials and concentrate on development and order probe into the "big works" undertaken by SP government and recruitments during the SP regime.