Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) demanded recall of Uttar Pradesh Governor Vishnu Kant Shastri, alleging that he had turned a "blind eye" to the political developments in the state.

A party delegation would soon meet President A P J Abdul Kalam to press their demand, SP national general secretary Reoti Raman Singh and state unit general secretary Shivpal Singh Yadav told reporters.

They demanded an inquiry by a sitting High Court judge into the cases filed against dissident member of legislative assembly (MLAs) and claimed that the Mayawati government had been reduced to a minority after 12 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators expressed lack of faith in her leadership.

Singh said the government was trying to create fear psychosis by filing cases against the dissidents and said one of them, Puran Singh Bundela, MLA from Lalitpur, was coerced to return to BJP fold.

PTI