Exposing BJP is Naresh's mission now

lucknow: after hogging the limelight for the last four years, expelled power minister naresh agarwal suddenly finds himself in a political void. while the split in the loktantrik congress party (lcp) has left him bruised and battered, he seems to have no takers from the major opposition parties demanding the dissolution of the rajnath singh government in the wake of his expulsion.in the backdrop of the prevailing political situation, his hope is rekindled by the vaish community which has assured him its support and decried the government for his sacking at a conference of the vaish ekta parishad presided over by its president sumant gupta here on monday. the adverse remarks came in presence of two bjp ministers - baburam (institutional finance) and radhey shyam gupta (law) from banwari lal kanchal, who resigned from the bjp in support of naresh agarwal and other vaish leaders. the cm, who was also supposed to attend it, as per his original schedule, stayed away from it, predictably due to the presence of naresh agarwal. but then this does not seem to have helped naresh agarwal much. agarwal himself admits it in his own way. as he puts it:"i now aim at wiping out the bjp instead of merely working for my rehabilitation." for this, he said he would endeavour to work for a wider alliance between the opposition and exuded hope for this. the strategy for this, he said, would be chalked out after the party meetings of state executive on tuesday and district presidents on august 20. disappointment was discernible in his tone when he accused the cm of having a secret meeting with samajwadi party chief mulayam singh yadav before the indo-pak summit at agra and sought to know details of it. he said people must be told about it as to what had transpired between the two leaders before the summit. notably, earlier, agarwal had shown his inclination to join hands with yadav, with whom he claimed to have cordial relations. but then this impression is belied by his latest statement and it appears that the yadav leader may not be much keen to have an alliance with agarwal. reason: of the 19 members of the lcp, agarwal could not claim the support of more than three, while 16 have openly rallied round the cm. this is, however, disputed by agarwal, who claimed to have the open support of six members. the situation, he further said, would become clear once the cm seeks trial of strength on the floor of the house.