Main opposition Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Swami Prasad Maurya today sarcastically remarked that the ‘power grid’ in Uttar Pradesh had collapsed on March 15, the day the Samajwadi Party government came to power in the state ‘Now the state is being ruled by at least four Chief Ministers,’ who included one super CM Mulayam Singh Yadav and two Chief Ministers in waiting, resulting in utter confusion, the newly-appointed BSP national General Secretary alleged at a press conference drawing a parallel between the grid failure and recent political events. Addressing the press conference here, Mr Maurya, who is also the leader of the opposition in the state assembly said that though the power grid failed twice last month, the grid of UP had failed when the SP government came to power in the state. He said that now Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav himself was annoyed with the functioning of the government after giving 100 per cent marks when the government completed 100 days in office.
‘Everyone knows that whenever Samajwadi Party government comes in the state, goondaraj is revived automatically. The situation is similar today what it was during the previous Mulayam Singh Yadav regime in 2003-07,’ he claimed. Welcoming the decision of social activist Anna Hazare to float a new political outfit in the country, the BSP leader said in democracy everyone has the right to participate in the political system. ‘Ms Mayawati in the past had already suggested Anna to join politics so that he could win such numbers of MPs to fulfill his dream of Lokpal Act,’ he further added. UNI