Mulayam Apologies to Muslims for Allying with Kalyan

To woo Muslim community after having allied with Kalyan Singh, SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav has regretted taking support of those ‘responsible’ for the Babri mosque demolition and sought pardon of the community, said media reports.

“In the last Lok Sabha polls, I had to take support of some ‘galat tatva’ (wrong elements) to keep communal forces at bay from forming government at the Centre. This confused the secular forces especially my Muslim brothers and their feelings were hurt.I accept my mistake and seek pardon of the Muslim community for my act,” he was quoted as saying in a statement in Lucknow.

“I have already made public statement that I will never take support of those responsible for the Babri mosque demolition in the future.

“I want to assure my Muslim brothers that whatever I have done will not be repeated and I will continue to raise voice in favour of the Muslim community,” Yadav, whose Muslim vote bank eroded in the last election, was quoted as saying.

The SP chief pointed out that his life was an open book of struggle against communal forces, reports said.

“I always took initiatives to defeat communal forces and did my duty,” he was quoted as saying.

He said that as a Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1990, he took all the measures to save Babri mosque in Ayodhya, said reports.

In a clear reference to Kalyan Singh, Mulayam said that the mosque was razed down on December 6, 1990 during the leadership of the then chief minister, who was held responsible for that.

The SP, which had won only 23 out of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP, had accepted that it core Muslim voters had drifted to others parties.

(Based on internet reports)