Will demolish parks,memorials made by Maya,says Mulayam

Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav today said that he will lead the jail bharo agitation of the party in Lucknow on January 19 and will also court arrest.

Addressing the party workers after paying homage to socialist leader Raj Narain on his 24th death anniversary,the SP chief reiterated his resolve to get the parks and memorials of Dalit icons demolished and replace it with schools and hospitals. I have chosen Lucknow to lead the jail bharo agitation since the state capital is the symbol of the arbitrary conduct of the BSP-led government, he said.

Mayawati has occupied over 2,500 acres of public land in the state capital and all political parties are conspicuous by their silence on this issue, he added. Various parks and memorials have been constructed from the hard-earned money of the poor people of the state and we will give these assets back to the people by constructing schools and hospitals in place of the memorials for Dalit icons, said Yadav. The schools and hospitals will be named after the Dalit icons, he added.

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Exhorting the party cadres to follow the path shown by Raj Narain,who fought against Emergency during Indira Gandhis tenure,the SP chief said: Raj Narain fought against all kinds of injustice be it state repression or the anti-people conduct of the government. You can fight the BSP government only by following the ideals shown by the great socialist leader.

Terming the BSP government as an epitome of arbitrary conduct,bad governance and corruption,Yadav recalled his agitation for the sugarcane farmers after the police firing at Ramkola in Deoria district during the first BJP regime in 1992. Ramkola agitation remains a milestone in the history of the SP,where I was arrested and jailed,but the government had to relent and accept the demands of the farmers, he said.

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