India’s Mulayam Singh attacks BJP on temple issue

Hitting out at Bharatiya Janata Party and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Samajwadi Party national president Mulayam Singh Yadav said that BJP never wanted to construct temple; and they were interested only to keep the issue alive forever.
He said if BJP was really sincere for temple’s construction following the demolition of the Babri Masjid, it could have done so during the BJP regime when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the prime minister and Kalyan Singh the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
But they refused to do so because they were only interested in doing politics,” he said this while talking to Arab News.
Yadav said that BJP cannot be trusted as it is engaged in only in polarizing votes on religious lines for their own vested political interest. He said India is passing through a critical phase because leaders were acting like “Hitler.”
Claiming that he was instrumental in saving the Babri Mosque in 1990, the SP chief said that even after assurance by the BJP leaders in 1992 that there would be no harm to the mosque they went against their promise.
However, Yadav asked people to support his party because it would be like voting for a change.
Making a scathing attack on the ruling Congress government, Yadav said: “Center is like a commissioner while the state government is like a clerk. Does a clerk have any power against the commissioner? So it will be better to become a commissioner now,” he said. SP leader did not spare the Congress saying that the Center has failed to control corruption and inflation, leading to peoples’ misery.