Seeking to play the minority card with polling underway to elect a new UP Assembly, SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav today recalled his "extreme" action to safeguard the Babri mosque in 1990.
People got angry with what happened in Ayodhya but it was the priority of my government to stop the demolition of the Babri mosque. We could not have allowed the minority community and their interest to suffer.Mulayam Yadav, BSP Supremo
Mulayam, who was the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, had ordered firing on kar sevaks in Ayodhya in 1990 in which 16 people were killed. This incident had earned him the title of “Mullah Mulayam”. Referring to that incident, he said:
We had to fire. When I tried to justify my action, the BJP called me the murderer of humanity. If we had not fired at them, imagine what the Muslim population would have thought.Then how would I justify my position as chief minister.Mulayam Yadav, BSP Supremo
(With inputs from PTI)
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