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Amar seeks all-party meet on anti-north Indian attacks
PNS | New Delhi
The Samajwadi Party has demanded an all party meeting to discuss the anti-north Indian attacks in Maharashtra.
“I don’t think any Government exists in Maharashtra and so the sole responsibility lies on the Centre to rein in the divisive forces in the financial capital of the country,” SP general secretary Amar Singh said.
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ridiculed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when he was asked if it was enough to just write a letter to the Maharastra Chief Minister.
“I am not here to celebrate the helplessness of Prime Minister in public,” he said and added that when the Government was not hearing Lalu Prasad and Ramvilas Paswan on the issue a different strategy would have to be chalked out to control the divisive forces.
The SP general secretary was talking to reporters here after the meeting of the party’s parliamentary board.
Feeling let down by the Congress due to the continuing hiccups in seat sharing, the Samajwadi Party (SP) has decided to filed 65 candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh.
“We have decided on 65 candidates informally...We are ready for talks with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi whenever they want,” SP general secretary Amar Singh told reporters on Thursday.
Singh also released a list of 111 candidates for Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, 23 candidates for Rajasthan and 28 for Jammu and Kashmir.
Justifying his unilateral decision to field his party’s candidates in these States even when the strength did not suit the claims, the SP leader said it was not the responsibility of the SP alone to check the division in secular votes. “We had proposed the Congress to make an alliance at all India level, but no one from their party talked to us regarding the proposal,” he lamented.
The SP leader denied any alliance with Uma Bharti’s Bhartiya Janshakti, saying “there are ideological differences and therefore no alliance is possible with her”.
He, however, said SP was in talks with some smaller regional parties for alliances in MP, but he did not explain who these regional parties were.
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