AGRA, Sept 11: In an apparent attack on the UPA government, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today alleged that no other country in the world had seen the kind of deteriorating situation as India did in the last 10 years, saying people were now looking for an alternative.
“Today, there is threat to India’s politics, security, economy and secularism which was never there before,” he said in his presidential address at the SP National Executive meeting being held here.
Setting the agenda for the two-day meet, Yadav said there was a need for serious deliberations on all these issues which will be taken up during the conclave.
“People of the country don’t want to listen to the complaints, they are searching for an alternative. I have been repeatedly saying this that it was not possible for larger parties which indulge in vote politics. This challenge has to be accepted by the regional parties,” he said.
Yadav said SP from the last 20 years has been raising the issue of increasing threat to the country’s security at the borders but has gone unheard by both UPA and NDA regimes.
“It is first and foremost responsibility of a proud nation to instill feeling of security and honour in the hearts of its people. Unfortunately during UPA and NDA regimes, the people were insulted and felt insecure,” he alleged.
The SP supremo said that there have been a number of attacks and intrusions on the borders and soldiers have been killed which the government has hid from the country.
“No serious effort is being made from the government’s side to change the situation. The Prime Minister first gives assurances and then says that we cannot change our neighbours,” he said.
“It is true that we can’t change our neighbours, but we can’t let our boundaries being held captive in their hands,” Yadav added.
He alleged that the even figure of soldiers achieving martyrdom without fighting was being distorted which would not be tolerated.
Yadav alleged that small farmers, unemployed people and slum dwellers were the biggest victims of the bad shape of the country’s economy.
Yadav alleged that in the last 10 years the economy has been governed by foreign currency and the purchasing capacity of the Indian rupee was at the mercy of the US dollar.
He said that UPA after coming to power had assured that it will control inflation within 100 days, but today the situation has deteriorated so much that not only the poor and unemployed have been affected but also the middle class is finding it difficult to deal with it.
Yadav said that in the last five years prices of essential commodities have climbed by 100 per cent.
“This government has dented the people’s faith the most. If scams and loot of the government departments in the last five years are put together, then the figure will turn out to be more than Rs five lakh crore,” he said.
“From this it is proved that both the UPA and the NDA regimes failed completely in providing security and employment to the poor, farmers, youths, unemployed and women,” he said.
The SP chief said that the countdown has started of the existing government.
“In May next year there will be a new government and SP will have a big responsibility for its formation and to give it strength. We have to prove ourselves to the challenge,” he said.
Expressing concern over the border situation as well as internal peace in the country, Yadav said, “The country is going through a serious and dangerous phase. This is the year of change.”
He alleged that some political parties were trying to take advantage of the situation in Muzaffarnagar and adjoining areas and trying to worsen the situation.
“If we do not remain alert then such incidents will be repeated, because some people on whom the people of Uttar Pradesh did not trust will try to take advantage,” he said.
“We will not let this happen irrespective of the biggest sacrifice we need to make,” he added.
Yadav said that SP was a party with political legacy of Ram Manohar Lohia, Jai Prakashj Narian and Chaudhary Charan Singh. (PTI)
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