NEW DELHI, May 29: The United Front Government today came under pressure from the Samajwadi Party (SP), one of its constituents, to sack the Mayawati Government in Uttar Pradesh even as Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Kanshi Ram hit out at SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and dared the Front to dismiss the State Government on ``bogus charges of lawlessness''.

``Dismissal is not so easy, whether for the United Front or any other Government. I doubt whether the United Front Government can do it,'' Kanshi Ram told newsmen today.

He pointed out that most constituents of the Front were against the ``misuse'' of Article 356 and the dismissal of any State Government. Kanshi Ram claimed Mulayam Singh had told the Front steering committee that he would ``act'' if the Front Government failed to ``act'' in Uttar Pradesh.

But the SP, in a resolution adopted at the end of the two-day national executive committee today, said that recent court verdicts in the transfer-posting policy of the State government and the State Guest House incident had proved that the Mayawati had no moral right to continue in office.

The resolution observed that if she did not resign after assessing the overall dismal scenario in the State and the court's judgements, President Shanker Dayal Sharma should dismiss the government.

The SP has planned a big rally of the United Front in Lucknow on June 15, to highlight the Mayawati Government's failure and targeted killings of the UF activists, mainly of SP workers in the State, ever since the combine came to power.The executive committee hailed the Lucknow court judgement which absolved Mulayam Singh Yadav and others in the State Guest House incident of June 2, 1995, under the Prevention of the Corruption Act, holding that no case was made out against them under this Act.The SP leaders said that in the wake of the court judgement, the Mayawati Government should resign.

But Kanshi Ram said that the BSP, whether its Government remained in power or not, would not allow ``jungle raj'' to prevail in Uttar Pradesh. The Mayawati Government, he said, had been moving swiftly ever since it came to power, weeding out all such elements. Many officials, including those of the police, had been transferred.``I feel that anti-social elements anywhere cannot become successful without the active support of the administration and the first thing we did was to transfer some officials found to be actively involved.''

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