Angry dalits keep Laloo out of Ambedkar mela - part II of II - The Asian Age

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Bahujan Samaj Party president Kanshi Ram is in favour of early elections in Uttar
Pradesh and termed the present agreement with the BJP as a "marriage of
compulsion."

Talking to newsmen in Patna, he said that, "We want elections. We were compelled
to form this purely temporary alliance to teach the Congress and the United Front
a lesson." He was also in favour of early parliamentary polls.

Reacting to queries about cracks appearing in their alliance with the BJP in the
light of the present situation in Uttar Pradesh Mr Kanshi Ram said that there are
no fissures. "It is a creation of the media." He added that Ms Mayawati has
already given clarification and "if still there is any problem then I, Mr Atal
Behari Vajpayee and Mr Advani will talk and decide according to the agreement."

He, however, pointed out that the agreement was on white paper and the alliance a
purely temporary one, for one year. "I have asked Mayawati to give the people the
work of six years in six months and we will do that," he stressed. "We will go to
the people because every election has showed that we have increased our support
and this time we will capture 42 per cent of the vote," he added. Mr Kanshi Ram
pointed out that their party was not of the dalits but of the "bahujan
samaj"(majority). On the question of supporting Mr T.N. Seshan's candidature for
the presidential elections he said, "We appreciate the decisions he took as an
election commissioner but our support to him will be decided later."

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