At meet to mark 33 yrs of Emergency, Mulayam makes no mention of Cong

New Delhi, June 26: Congress crisis managers, desperately looking for allies in the face of the Left’s threat to withdraw support if the UPA goes ahead with the nuclear deal, may find some temporary comfort. Although Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has said that any decision on the deal will be taken after a UNPA meeting on July 3, at a function to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Emergency here today, he, significantly, made not one critical mention of the Congress. Speaking at the National Conference of Political Prisoners, organized to mark the anniversary of the imposition of Emergency by the Congress, Mulayam did not once mention either “Congress” or “Indira Gandhi.” Instead, he used the opportunity to attack the Mayawati-led BSP government in Uttar Pradesh alleging that the administrative repression in that... [read full story]