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By PTI - LUCKNOW
28th July 2012 12:24 PM
The Samajwadi Party today distanced itself from Shahid Siddiqui, saying he is no longer a part of the party two days after his interview with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi made waves.
"The party wants to clarify that Siddiqui had left SP long back and joined BSP on whose ticket he contested Lok Sabha election from Bijnor," party's national general secretary and spokesman Ram Gopal Yadav said in a statement issued here.
He said that later Siddiqui joined the Rashtriya Lok Dal.
"Siddiqui is not a SP member and has nothing to do with the party," Yadav said, asking the media not to project him as SP leader.
Yadav said terming Siddiqui as a SP leader was "outrightly wrong".
Siddiqui, who is the editor of Urdu weekly Nai Duniya, had recently interview Modi in which the Gujarat Chief Minister had refused to apologise for the post-Godhra riots and instead said he would prefer to be hanged if found guilty.
In an image makeover exercise, Modi had said in the interview, "If my government had done this (post-Godhra riots), I should be hanged in public in such a way that it remains a lesson for the next 100 years so that nobody dares to do it (such a crime)".
Siddqiqui was a SP MP before he joined the RLD only to rejoin the Samajwadi Party in January this year.
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Comments(2)
So , the holy muslim vote bank has totally polarised. Its a universal truth that if the minority vote bank gets polarized beyond a limit , it will have induction effect.This is already in existance in muslim dominant areas. Hindu votes polarization maximum in muslim dominant areas. Its a very scary situation , competitive politics is leading to muslin votes polarisation. if the same happens to hindu votes and added to that competitve politics, then we will have situation like ninties.
Posted by Art at 07/28/2012 13:20 Reply to this Report abuse
Shahid Siddiqui is a habitual Party hopper but unfortunately even reputed English News channel call him to be part of their discussion panel. watch in the next couple days he will come on TV explaining SP is not a political party and rather it is because of party like SP , Narender Modi rules Gujrat and if Muslims patronise SP then it will be only Muslims who will be laying road for Modi to hoist the tricolor from Redfort
Posted by a.v.moorthi - besides TIHAR at 07/28/2012 14:21 Reply to this Report abuse