Rejecting the demand for a CBI probe into the murder of a PWD engineer in Uttar Pradesh allegedly by a BSP MLA, Chief Minister Mayawati strongly condemned what she claimed to be ‘a mischievous campaign’ by the Opposition to defame her government by linking the killing to her birthday celebration.To counter the campaign, Mayawati said that her party would observe her birthday on January 15 by organising huge rallies across the state against the Congress, BJP and SP's ‘wrong doings’ during their rule in the state."Where is the need for a CBI probe when the state police, on my orders, have arrested all the accused in the case," Mayawati told a crowded press conference a day after PWD engineer M K Gupta's murder allegedly by MLA Shekhar Tiwari shook the state. Describing the incident at Auraiya as ‘tragic’, Mayawati blamed the Congress, BJP and SP for trying to take ‘political mileage’ out of it, instead of condoling along with the grieving family.Charging the Congress-led UPA, supported by SP, and the BJP-led NDA with being ‘the epitome of corruption’, she said these Opposition parties were so perturbed over their shrinking mass base, that they had no other issue against the BSP government but to link the engineer's murder to her birthday celebrations.The Chief Minister accused the opposition parties of ‘dancing to the tunes of corporate houses and big business’ and framing policies according to their diktats."The UPA government's policies are made in the drawing rooms of corporate honchos. The stories of corruption of SP are on the lips of every citizen. Therefore, these parties should not open their mouths," Mayawati said, adding that they have been thoroughly exposed among the masses.The BSP supremo said she had asked all her party legislators and MPs not to collect any fund for the upcoming general elections. "This job will be done by those in the party organisation," Mayawati said.
