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Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, Mulayam Singh said: “The Muslims trust me and there is no confusion over Kalyan Singh. The misunderstanding created by statements of certain leaders will soon be cleared. I cannot abuse Kalyan Singh for the demolition of the Babri Masjid but I never gave him a clean chit in the demolition case. As the BJP chief minister of UP on December 6, 1992, he was morally responsible for the demolition of the mosque.”
“Kalyan Singh should have taken steps to prevent the demolition of the mosque but that did not mean he was totally responsible for the demolition. The mosque was demolished by the RSS and Shiv Sena,” he said.
He accused the the media of “misleading” Muslims with their coverage. “There is no alliance with Kalyan Singh, it’s only friendship where there are no conditions... Kalyan Singh has pledged to bring about the downfall of BJP and I have no qualms in helping him,” he said.
On reports of differences in seat-sharing talks with the Congress, he said: “Talks are on with the Congress and it has entered the final stages. The alliance will take place... it will materialise.”


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The warmth of covenience between two stalwarts Mulayam and Kalyan is slowly on the wane. The repeated clean chits to Klayan in the demolition of the Babri Mosque by his one time rival Mulayam have done no good to either of them. If the so called friendship between the two breaks down it should not surprise any one. The reason is very simple. The gain that Mulayam Singh is trying to see with joining hands with Kalyan is proving more dangerous to his own party, the much hyped Muslim vote bank is slipping away. If Mulayam wats to make it clear that he does not need the muslims any more in fight against the BJP, then it is a different matter. It has been established that the threatening posture of the mulsim leaders in his party and the disapproval by the Cogress of what Mulayam is tryig to do has unnerved him. It is strange that the man who forced Mulayam to shake hands with Kalyan, Amar Singh, is keeping him away from the lime light. Mulayam Singh is the loser, not Amar Singh. Cheers
Kalyan should do some introspection. From the position of being third to Advani and Vajpayee, he has been relegated to a stage where no body wants to share dias with him. Just because he did not get his opponent not contest in one particular seat, he wanted to teach BJP a lesson. Now, will he teach lesson to Mulayam? Finally, he turns out to be a major failure in not being able to do things even for himself or for his core constituency (he does not have any more). Kalyan, it is not too late for you, Advaniji as PM is a better option than all these idiots.