Mulayam attacks Modi on 2002 'carnage'

Yadav also attacked Congress for having “remained silent in the face of repeated transgression of the national boundaries by China” during the decade-long UPA rule while blaming both Congress and BJP for “recognising Tibet as a part of China despite the plateau's strategic importance for India”.

He claimed that both the parties were “unable to find candidates of their own for the Lok Sabha elections and hence embarked upon a poaching spree” and said the return of Ram Vilas Paswan to the NDA fold, whose Lok Janshakti Party has been offered seven seats in Bihar, was “a manifestation of desperation” in the saffron party camp.

Earlier, Yadav's son and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav claimed that his government had “accomplished in two years what previous regimes could not in full five-year-terms” and exhorted the people to “help the party win as many seats in the Lok Sabha elections as possible so that no government is formed in the Centre without our support”.