RSS, too, should be banned: Mulayam
The Samajwadi Party on Wednesday demanded a similar ban on the RSS like SIMI for "vitiating the atmosphere of communal harmony in the country."
By PTI |
PATNA: Charging BJP President L K Advani of garnering Hindu votes by raking up the Ayodhya temple controversy and seeking a ban on SIMI, the Samajwadi Party on Wednesday demanded a similar ban on the RSS for "vitiating the atmosphere of communal harmony in the country."
"If SIMI must be banned, so must the RSS for vitiating the atmosphere of communal harmony in the country," Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav told reporters at Patna airport after making an aerial survey of flood-hit districts.
Dubbing the BJP as 'Bharat Jalao Party,' Yadav said it has always played divisive politics and cited its role in the recent shrine land agitation in Jammu. He said he would meet the Prime Minister tomorrow and seek central assistance for the lakhs marooned in the state.
He thanked the Centre for declaring the floods in Bihar as a "national calamity" and hoped that all governments would contribute to the cause of the flood victims in 16 north Bihar districts.
Accompanied by party General Secretary Amar Singh, Yadav said he would seek a reply from Orissa Chief Minister Navin Patnaik as to why action had not been taken against VHP workers for attacking Christians in his state.
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Referring to Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's indefinite sit-in agitation at the Nano project site in West Bengal's Singur, Amar Singh said the Uttar Pradesh government has provided land to the Tatas at Barabanki after they held direct talks with farmers. "Anil Ambani, too, talked to the farmers directly for setting up his plant and I have no hesitation in saying that I will use my contacts for providing land for setting up of such industries in Uttar Pradesh and other parts of the country," Singh said.
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