New Delhi: After 10 years, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party President, Mulayam Singh Yadav, has finally vacated his residence in Delhi.
The bungalow on Krishna Menon Marg was allotted to him when he was the defence minister.
Mulayam had refused to vacate the bungalow even after repeated reminders by the Urban Development Ministry. He had cited security reasons to stay on and has even been paying a penalty of Rs two lakh for more than a year now.
"My son does not have a bunglow, neither does Jaya Bachchan. I've been thrown out and Amar Singh's phones are being tapped. This is a conspiracy against the SP," said Mulayam.
He launched a veiled attack on Congress President Sonia Gandhi, announcing that Samajwadi Party's National Executive would be meeting by month end to decide its future strategy.
Mulayam, who is the President of the Samajwadi Party, alleged that his party was being singled out by the Congress-led Coalition at the Centre but chose to ignore questions on tapping controversy.
"Everybody knows whose government the UPA is and I would not like to repeat it again and again", he said when asked whether Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi, whom his party had accused of being responsible for the telephone tapping of SP leaders, was also behind the move to 'oust' him from the house.
He also told Left Parties, which had spurned his offer for leading a non-Congress alternative at the Centre, that sooner or later they would realise the need for such an alternative and insisted that a third front would be in the interest of the nation.
(With inputs from PTI)
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