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The way Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party abstained from voting during the passage of Lokpal Bill in the Lok Sabha sent a clear signal that on one hand these parties indulge in verbal duel with Congress in Uttar Pradesh, but on the other they are together at the Centre. And the shadow of this relation is likely to fall on UP elections also.
The SP has 21 MPs in the Lok Sabha while BSP has 20. If both these parties, who spoke against the Bill, had voted against the UPA Government the Bill may have failed.
“The happenings in the Lok Sabha have proved our point. We always say that Rahul Gandhi might berate the SP and BSP for corruption during his rallies but without the support of these parties the UPA Government cannot function,” Bharatiya Janata Party’s national vice-president and in-charge of the party’s election campaign Kalraj Mishra told The Pioneer on Wednesday.
Interestingly, Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav, presidents of BSP and SP respectively, have voiced opposition to the Lokpal Bill. Mayawati had demanded that PM, CBI and class C and D employees of the Central Government should be brought under the Lokpal. She had even claimed that BSP would not allow the passage of the Lokpal Bill if her party’s demands were not accepted by the Union Government.
It is not very difficult to understand why these parties walked out of the Lok Sabha just before the voting on this crucial Bill. Both these leaders are facing CBI probes into the disproportionate asset cases. Problems for Mayawati are more serious as her Government is facing grave charges of embezzlement of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) funds.
The SP has 21 MPs in the Lok Sabha while BSP has 20. If both these parties, who spoke against the Bill, had voted against the UPA Government the Bill may have failed.
“The happenings in the Lok Sabha have proved our point. We always say that Rahul Gandhi might berate the SP and BSP for corruption during his rallies but without the support of these parties the UPA Government cannot function,” Bharatiya Janata Party’s national vice-president and in-charge of the party’s election campaign Kalraj Mishra told The Pioneer on Wednesday.
Interestingly, Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav, presidents of BSP and SP respectively, have voiced opposition to the Lokpal Bill. Mayawati had demanded that PM, CBI and class C and D employees of the Central Government should be brought under the Lokpal. She had even claimed that BSP would not allow the passage of the Lokpal Bill if her party’s demands were not accepted by the Union Government.
It is not very difficult to understand why these parties walked out of the Lok Sabha just before the voting on this crucial Bill. Both these leaders are facing CBI probes into the disproportionate asset cases. Problems for Mayawati are more serious as her Government is facing grave charges of embezzlement of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) funds.
