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Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav predicted on Friday that the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition government in Uttar Pradesh would not last long.
"This government of opportunists will fall soon," he told reporters during his daylong visit to the neighbouring state of Bihar.
He also called the new government in Lucknow a 'government of the mafia', pointing out that at least 24 legislators of the BSP and BJP have criminal backgrounds.
But he admitted that Mayawati has the support of the majority in the Uttar Pradesh assembly now and blamed the Congress, which failed to support his own attempts to cobble together a coalition government, for this turn of events.
He said he would disclose the role played by the Congress in Uttar Pradesh in the next two or three days.
Referring to the situation in Gujarat, he said Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was responsible for the violence that took place in the state after the Godhra incident.
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