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| Rift widens between Congress, Samajwadi Party | | UP is a perfect case for Article 356: Sonia | |
BL KAK
NEW DELHI, JAN 6
Sonia Gandhi has already emerged as a person of consequence. Her opposition to the continuance of the present government in Lucknow headed by Mulayam Singh Yadav is well known. As days roll by her outbursts against Yadav and company will become sharper and louder. In this context, her latest message on the shape of events to come just cannot be ignored. Neither can it be under-estimated.
Sonia Gandhi's message surfaced on Saturday in the shape of her forceful criticism of the 'sad' performance of the Mulayam Singh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh. Sonia Gandhi said that Uttar Pradesh had become a perfect case for Article 356. Under Article 356 of the Constituion of India, the Centre can impose President's rule in any State with worse law and order situation or on the brink of a constitutional crisis. Imposing President's rule in UP means a sympathy factor for the UPA government especially with the Uttar Pradesh elections round the corner.
The UP government headed by Mulayam Singh Yadav has now been thrown into confusion, if not disorder, with the Congress party supremo and UPA chairperson, Sonia Gandhi, and other parties coming out in the open against the "failure" of the UP administration to deal with the "deteriorating law and order situation" in the State.
Sonia Gandhi took the Mulayam Singh Yadav government to task saying that there is no sign of law and order in Uttar Pradesh (UP). After Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo, Mayawati, and the Uttar Pradesh PWD Minister, Shivpal Yadav, visited Nithari village in Noida, it was the turn of Sonia Gandhi on Saturday to visit the site, which has been in the news for the murder of many children.
She said: "The Nithari killings are barbaric and gruesome and the fact that the police took them very lightly will be seen as the failure of the administration as a whole. The Central government has been monitoring the situation from the start". Sonia added that the UPA Government had been in favour of a CBI inquiry from the very beginning but the Chief Minister, Mulayan Yadav, had refused one then. In fact, Shivpal Yadav had even gone ahead and termed the murders 'routine'.
The Congress president alleged that Mulayam Singh Yadav had finally relented and ordered a CBI inquiry only after he was pressurised by the Congress and other parties. She told mediapersons at the end of her visit to Noida's Nithari village: "The Women and Child Development Ministry has already set up a commission to look in to the killings. The police it seems are working under pressure and that it is why they could not solve the case before it reached this stage". She also said that the Centre is also thinking of announcing compensation to the kin of the victims.
The Congress president was greeted by a group of protestors carrying placards that demanded more compensation and lamenting the police apathy and the fact that the UP government was not doing anything to take care of them. Asked why she was visiting the village over a week after the incident first came to light, she said: "We had sent the PCC President, Salman Khursheed, and the Minister of State for Home, Sriprakash Jaiswal, from Delhi. Now I am here."
"There is no law and order in Uttar Pradesh". Sonia said this at the Nithari village, where close to 40 children were allegedly sexually abused and then killed by owner of a manufacturing unit, Moninder Singh Pandher, and his servant Surinder Kohli alia Satish.
The Congress president reiterated, in reply to a question by a reporter: "There is no such thing as law and order in UP. You can see for yourselves the situation here. Something or the other is happening everyday". She also reiterated that Chief Minister, Mulayam Singh Yadav, had to order a CBI probe into the killings as pressure was mounting on him, particularly from the Congress party.
Mulayam Yadav, who was earlier reluctant to seek a CBI enquiry into the case, succumbed to the public pressure almost a week after the incident came to light, when 17 skulls and 22 dismembered bones of children and women were unearthed from a Sector 31 plot in Noida.
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