Lucknow, July 15: Hitting back at Mulayam Singh Yadav for his apology to Muslims for alligning with those responsible for Babri mosque demolition, former Hindutva icon Kalyan Singh today called him a traitor and said Samajwadi Party could never return to power as Muslims and the backward class had drifted away from it.
“Muslims and backwards have drifted away from the SP and it will never regain power. Mulayam is a traitor and he is in the habit of betraying people after using them”, Kalyan told news agency over phone from Aligarh.
“During the Loksabha polls, Yadav wanted to take my support. Though my friends cautioned me against Yadav but I accepted his friendship keeping in mind interest of backward class,” Singh said.
—Agencies