New Delhi: Former prime minister VP Singh on Thursday said his Jan Morcha would forge pre-poll alliances with like-minded parties and field candidates to contest all the 405-seats in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Polls to be held early next year.
"We will contest in all the seats," Singh said. "We are talking to different parties except Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and (Uttar Pradesh-ruling) Samajwadi Party.
We are open for pre-poll alliance also," Jan Morcha president Raj Babbar, who accompanied Singh, said. Babbar, who has been touring Uttar Pradesh, alleged the state was under anarchy.
"There is no political power in Uttar Pradesh. It's absolutely a mafia raj. The Samajwadi Party activists and the officials have made it a goonda raj," he alleged.
"The officials who do not obey the ruling party leaders are transferred," Babbar, a former Samajwadi Party MP, alleged. "Mulayam Singh's party should not call itself as Samajwadi Party. It no longer stands for socialism."
Both Singh and Babbar accused the Government of "terrorising" the Muslim community. "The situation in some parts of Uttar Pradesh is worse than Gujarat. Muslims are terrorised in the state," Singh claimed.
Intensifying his campaign for farmers, Singh demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should announce a package of Rs 100 million for the drought-hit Bundelkhand region and form an autonomous body to govern the region. "The Prime Minister should visit the region to see the plight of the farmers there," he said.
Babbar said that Singh would lead a delegation to President APJ Abdul Kalam and Manmohan Singh to draw their attention to the plight of the farmers in Bundelkhand.
The former prime minister, who has been protesting the agricultural land acquisition for Special Economic Zones (SEZs), also took a snipe at Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's reported reservations against it. "Statements are no justified. Farmers cannot go to the court unless there is a law against the acquisition of their land."
At the Congress chief ministers' conference in Nainital, Sonia had expressed her reservations against prime agriculture lands being acquired for SEZs.
The 76-year-old former prime minister, who had been ailing but has made a come back into active politics recently, added: "If Jan Morcha comes to power, the land acquisition law will be changed and the farmers would be given the right for price determination."
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