Congress does not deserve leader like N D Tiwari: Mulayam Singh Yadav

The Congress, according to Mulayam, “does not deserve a leader like Tiwari”.

“In order to maintain your existence in Congress, you have to have ‘kripa’ (blessings) of one or two leaders in the party. He (Tiwari) was removed since he did not have the ‘kripa’,” the SP chief said, and recalled the memories of his political career with the senior leader who attended the event Sunday with his family.

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Mulayam also praised his son, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, for developing the “historical” Janeshwar Mishra Park which will be “frequented by foreign tourists in the coming days”.

Akhilesh reciprocated the gesture by thanking his father for making him the chief minister. “There would be very few leaders in the country who would make their sons the Chief Minister,” Akhilesh said and observed that had his father not been a chief minister, he himself would have merely been known as “a teacher’s ordinary son”.

The event saw the CM unfurling the 207-feet-high “monumental flag” which was erected by the Lucknow Development Authority and dedicated by the CM to the public.

Governor Ram Naik, who had expressed his unhappiness over the way the invitation was sent to him — “I had no prior information and a simple invitation from the LDA reached my office just a day ago” — did not attend the event as was announced by his office Saturday. As a result, when the LDA on Sunday released the advertisement with names of those invited for the function, Naik’s name, which had appeared previously, did not find a mention.

On Sunday, however, the Governor, who was in Pune, personally called Mulayam to wish him on his birthday.