Lucknow, May 30
Leader of the Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Mulayam Singh Yadav has asked for a special session of the Assembly to discuss the issue of reservation for Gujjars.
Yadav, who is also national president of the Samajwadi Party, said he had asked Chief Minister Mayawati to convene a session of the Vidhan Sabha at the earliest.
"Time has come for the Mayawati government to convene an Assembly session and pass a resolution for the Gujjar community," he said.
According to the former Chief Minister, Mayawati during her campaign in Rajasthan for the 2004 Lok Sabha election, had also promised reservation for Gujjars.
Charging the BJP and the BSP for being hand-in-glove on the Gujjar issue, Yadav said they were conniving to carry out the killing of innocent people in UP and Rajasthan.
He warned that such a brand of politics would prove costly to Mayawati as well as her Rajasthan counterpart, Vasundhara Raje Scindia.
Strongly criticising the firing on agitating Gujjars in Firozabad on Friday, in which one person has been seriously injured, Yadav demanded compensation for the dead and the injured.
According to him, the Gujjar community in Firozabad, along with other communities, were holding a peaceful demonstration in the belief that the BSP government was sympathetic towards their demand.
"It is then that, a sub-divisional magistrate suddenly ordered firing without any provocation, seriously injuring one person. An FIR for attempt to murder must be lodged against the SDM and other local officials and they must be arrested without delay," he demanded.
Home department spokesperson, however, denied Yadav's allegation of the police fire on the demonstrators.
Expressing his party's support to the cause of the Gujjar agitation Yadav called upon all sections of society to raise their voice against such atrocities, in which the downtrodden were being targeted.
