BJP, Shiv Sena behind CD: Maya

Accusing the BJP and Shiv Sena of having a hand in the making of controversial CD ‘Tisri Azadi’, which was distributed in Basti district recently...

Accusing the BJP and Shiv Sena of having a hand in the making of controversial CD ‘Tisri Azadi’, which was distributed in Basti district recently, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has recommended a CBI inquiry into the same. She has also directed the UP Police to seize all the CDs.

“Since the CD was prepared in Maharashtra where Congress, BJP and Shiv Sena governments have ruled from time to time, it is inferred that outfits like the BJP and Shiv Sena whose nature and character is that of fundamentalists have a hand in the making of

such a CD which can ignite communal feeling among people and dent the solidarity of the nation,” she said.

Addressing mediapersons at her official residence — 5 KD Marg — here on Wednesday, the Chief Minister also ruled out the possibility of her Basti MP Lalmani Prasad’s involvement in the case. “I have recommended the case to the CBI since the name of my party MP has cropped up in the case,” she clarified. “The CBI will find out who made it, when it was made and where all it had been distributed so far,” Mayawati said.

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She argued that since the CD was in circulation for quite some time, why had the Opposition kept mum for so many years. “They (Opposition) are raking up such issues now, after seeing the upper caste coming into the BSP fold, which has perturbed them,” she said, adding that “in 1993 the Samajwadi Party fought the election jointly with the BSP and formed the Government; in 1996 elections, the Congress had an alliance with the BSP; and the BJP had twice made the Government with the BSP. That time they did not have any problem with the BSP. But now since the upper caste and other communities are drifting towards my party, they all are feeling frustrated”.

Mayawati said the same CD was available on Internet in 2006 also when Mulayam Singh Yadav was in power in the state. “I want to ask him (Mulayam) why did he not take any action at that time? I ordered a strict action the moment I came to know about it,” she said.

She detailed the arrest of three persons in this connection and said an FIR had also been registered against the television channel that was showing the CD. She claimed that her Government would not spare anyone who tried to cause communal tension in the state.