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Polarisation against Maya's misgovernance in UP: Ajit Singh New Delhi, Apr 15 : Rashtriya Lok Dal(RLD) leader Ajit Singh, who filed his nomination from Baghpat constituency in Uttar Pradesh today, says there is direct fight between the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj party (BSP) in the western part of the state. ''I feel there is this time polarisation against the misgovernance of the BSP, and the situation would go in favour of our alliance,'' Mr Singh told UNI over phone after filing his papers. The RLD chief, who is son of former prime minister Ch Charan Singh and has a strong base among farmers in western Uttar Pradesh, said people of the state were fed up with the ill-governance of Ms Mayawati, as the law and order situation was very bad and there was complete neglect of civic amenities and and infrastructural needs. People now want a change that is meaningful, and so they found that the NDA was in a better state to provide them leadership in such a situation, claimed Mr Singh, whose party had extended support to the UPA after the last elections, but parted ways at the time of the nuclear deal and joined the Mayawati camp. However, after the failure of the collaboration of the two parties over seat distribution and the decison of the Ms Mayawati to go it alone in the elections, Mr Ajit Singh struck a deal with the BJP, which had conceded him seven seats in western Uttar Pradesh. Mr Singh does not feel that the coming together of the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party and the Bihar based parties RJD, led by Lalu Prasad Yadav and LJP led by Mr Ram Vilas Paswan would make any difference to any of these parties in either of the states. None of these leaders can fetch votes beyond their states, he said. As far as western Uttar Pradesh was concerned, the SP might win one or two seats, said the RLD chief, who was in the Mulayam Singh Government before the 2007 Assembly elections, but parted company with him at the time of the poll on the issue of creation of a ''harit Pradesh'' comprising the western Uttar Pradesh disatricts. Replying to a question, he said there was a very strong possibility of ''so-called'' Third Front constituents crossing over to the NDA fold after elections. ''In fact there was no such entity as a Third Front. It has no one leader, no secretriat, no organisation. It would be quite misleading to call it by that term,'' he said. --- UNI
