06-05-2006, 10:32 AM
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Pioneer News Service | Lucknow
Predicts fall of UPA Govt before Monsoon Session ---- Terming the move to provide reservation to OBCs in higher educational institutions as "vote politics", BSP supremo Mayawati appealed to the OBCs to beware the plans of Congress and BJP on the issue.
Addressing a Press conference here on Sunday, Mayawati said that her partymen were not on the streets in support of reservation as her party had always advocated social equality and did not want a confrontation between different communities.
"If the Government initiates steps to reserve seats for economically-weaker sections of upper classes, the BSP will support the move," she said.
Charging the UPA Government with having failed to live up to the expectations of people, Mayawati said the Congress in all likelihood would exploit the situation caused by the office-of-profit issue and also the proposed reservation for OBCs and go in for a mid-term poll. The party would ''sacrifice'' the Government over the OoP issue, rather than allow people to reject it for its failure, she charged.
Mayawati told mediapersons that the Election Commission was ready to disqualify Parliament members holding offices of profit before the Monsoon Session. As a majority of these were Left MPs, this would destabilise the Government. "The Government will be reduced to a minority as several Left MPs would be disqualified," she explained.
She also questioned the Congress for delaying the Bill's passage saying, 'There is something fishy," because if the party wanted, it could have called a special session of Parliament.
Even if the UPA Government fell at the Centre, the BSP supremo had no apprehension of it impacting the poll schedule of UP Assembly. "There is no need to panic on the date of UP Assembly polls as the Election Commission has already informed the State Government about its decision to hold the elections along with Punjab and Uttaranchal,'' she claimed.Â
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Pioneer News Service | Lucknow
Predicts fall of UPA Govt before Monsoon Session ---- Terming the move to provide reservation to OBCs in higher educational institutions as "vote politics", BSP supremo Mayawati appealed to the OBCs to beware the plans of Congress and BJP on the issue.
Addressing a Press conference here on Sunday, Mayawati said that her partymen were not on the streets in support of reservation as her party had always advocated social equality and did not want a confrontation between different communities.
"If the Government initiates steps to reserve seats for economically-weaker sections of upper classes, the BSP will support the move," she said.
Charging the UPA Government with having failed to live up to the expectations of people, Mayawati said the Congress in all likelihood would exploit the situation caused by the office-of-profit issue and also the proposed reservation for OBCs and go in for a mid-term poll. The party would ''sacrifice'' the Government over the OoP issue, rather than allow people to reject it for its failure, she charged.
Mayawati told mediapersons that the Election Commission was ready to disqualify Parliament members holding offices of profit before the Monsoon Session. As a majority of these were Left MPs, this would destabilise the Government. "The Government will be reduced to a minority as several Left MPs would be disqualified," she explained.
She also questioned the Congress for delaying the Bill's passage saying, 'There is something fishy," because if the party wanted, it could have called a special session of Parliament.
Even if the UPA Government fell at the Centre, the BSP supremo had no apprehension of it impacting the poll schedule of UP Assembly. "There is no need to panic on the date of UP Assembly polls as the Election Commission has already informed the State Government about its decision to hold the elections along with Punjab and Uttaranchal,'' she claimed.Â
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