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[ZESTCaste] Rajya Sabha debate: BSP slams Rahul on lokpal bill

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Rajya Sabha debate: BSP slams Rahul on lokpal bill
Press Trust Of India
New Delhi, December 29, 2011

BSP on Thursday made a veiled attack on Congress General Secretary
Rahul Gandhi for his criticism of Mayawati government in poll-bound
Uttar Pradesh, where Congress is working hard to revive its fortune.
Blaming the Congress leadership for the state's plight, Satish Chandra Mishra
said, "Your leader says in five years I will change UP. When you could
not do anything in forty years, what great will you do in five years?"

Referring to the Rahul's statements in UP, the BSP leader said, "Your
leader goes to UP and says we have given money from the Centre for the
development of the state."

"Let me tell you Delhi is not your property. Delhi's money is not your
'jaagir' (property). It's not your money, it is our money which is
used for the development of the country with which you are running 150
projects in the name of your ancestors," he said.

Mishra said Central ministers frequently come to the state and "look
into the projects that how these bridges are made. Federal structure
of the country is being destroyed."

The BSP leader claimed that in 40 years of Congress rule, only 3,500
MW power was added in UP whereas in the last four years only, the BSP
government has managed to add 7,000 MW power through its own
resources.

Mishra said the Congress in the last 40 years, "did not gain mastery
in anything other than corruption. You defamed the country in the
whole world in the Commonwealth Games. You are scared only of the
elephant. You see the elephant in dream."

He said the Congress sees only Amethi and Rae Bareli in UP and there
also one after the other, central projects have been shut and people
left unemployed.

Mishra took a dig at Rahul Gandhi saying that Congress should not
make laws under anybody's orders as the constitutional amendment bill
was defeated in the Lok Sabha.

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[ZESTCaste] Dalits, Backwards not Safe under NDA: Purvey

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Dalits, Backwards not Safe under NDA: Purvey

Created on Tuesday, 27 December 2011 22:21

RJD leader Ramchandra Purvey stage a dharna in Patna on Tuesday.RJD
leader Ramchandra Purvey stage a dharna in Patna on Tuesday.

Patna: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) state president Ramchandra Purvey,
speaking at a dharna held by the party's extreme backward cell at
Kargil Chowk in Patna on Tuesday, ripped the NDA administration on
'atrocities against the poor and backwards' in the state saying things
were so bad in Bihar that the RJD had no option left but to launch a
statewide agitation against the Nitish government.

"Crime against the dalits has gone up several fold under the current
administration. NDA leaders with strong criminal background are
committing atrocities on those whose voices are not represented in the
government. Women, particularly those belonging to the extreme
backward castes and minorities, are also an oppressed lot. Given these
ground realities, we have no choice but to launch a statewide
agitation to draw the attention of the public towards these issues,"
Purvey said.

The RJD leader further said that that a girl was raped in Vikram block
a few days ago but the police is yet to take any action against the
alleged rapist.

"Between October 28 and December 22, 47 such incidents have taken
place in Bihar out of which 30 belong to extreme backward castes but
the government has opted to ignore these cases," Purvey said.

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[ZESTCaste] Maya hiding from dalits, behind a 40-foot wall in Lucknow: Rahul

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Maya hiding from dalits, behind a 40-foot wall in Lucknow: Rahul
TNN | Dec 30, 2011, 04.12AM IST

LUCKNOW: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused
the UP chief minister Mayawati of hiding from the people.

"It seems she is afraid of being amid dalits and the poor. That is why
she stays inside a 40-foot-high boundary wall in Lucknow. Though she
claims to be a leader of the dalits, Mayawati has not visited a single
dalit home in the last five years. She lives in her mansion fenced by
high walls," he said while addressing a public meeting in Pilibhit
during his third phase of campaign for assembly elections.

Gandhi scion alleged that Mayawati dismisses a minister, accusing him
of corruption, and then replaces him with an even more corrupt
minister. "A few days ago, she dismissed four ministers. On Wednesday,
she dismissed two more, and then she handed over the charge of their
departments to another minister, who is more corrupt than the ones he
has replaced. One month before the elections, she is trying to fool
the public with these antics," he said while referring to Mayawati's
right hand man Naseemuddin Siddiqui who has over a dozen departments
under him as a cabinet minister.

Citing an example of the poor state of governance in UP, Rahul said
"In a village I visited recently, I found 500 farmers waiting in a
queue for fertiliser. They were told there was no fertiliser, yet when
I went inside I saw piles of sacks containing fertiliser. The farmers
were being denied because the fertiliser found its way to the black
market under the cover of darkness."

The Congress general secretary said that the Food Security Bill would
provide food to the poorest sections of the society.

The bill would ensure that millions in UP receive 35 kilograms of
foodgrain. Though the greatest beneficiaries would be dalits, Mayawati
considers this a joke, he said.

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[ZESTCaste] Dalit killed in clashes between protesters, police

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Posted on 30th December 2011
Dalit killed in clashes between protesters, police

Agra, Dec 30 (IANS) A Dalit was shot dead on the Agra-Firozabad
highway in Uttar Pradesh in exchange of firing between the police and
protesters demanding compensation for an accident victim, an official
said.

A Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) trooper was also seriously hit
on the head in stone-pelting by villagers of the Chalesar area late
Thursday evening.

The clashes continued for over two hours after a speeding Scorpio
vehicle hit Raj Kumar, of Bangara village in Etmadpur, who was
crossing the road. Both his legs were badly crushed.

A large crowd gathered on the highway and blocked traffic. After
failing to clear the jam, police used tear gas shells, rubber bullets
and a mild baton charge, and the villagers retaliated by pelting
stones and firing back.

A bullet hit Ashok of Bangara village who fell on the ground. Police
took him to the SN Medical College where doctors pronounced him dead.

Deputy Inspector General Aseem Arun told IANS that the family of the
deceased has filed a First Information Report (FIR) against three
people of the village who, they alleged, took advantage of the
situation and killed him.

Arun said the police had used rubber bullets and tear gas shells. An
inquiry has been ordered to find out how Ashok was hit and died, he
added.

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[ZESTCaste] Dalits in UP suffered the most under Maya: Rahul

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Dalits in UP suffered the most under Maya: Rahul
Lucknow, December 27, DHNS:

In an apparent attempt to make a dent in the Mayawati's Dalit vote
bank, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the
Dalit community had suffered the most during the BSP supremo's regime
even as he termed the recent sacking of the four UP ministers by her
as an 'eyewash'.

"Mayawati calls herself leader of the Dalits, but the latter have
suffered the most in her rule," Rahul said while addressing election
meetings at Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur-Kheri district, about 150
kilometres from here, recalling the recurring droughts in the
impoverished Bundelkhand region of the state.

"Dalits asked me during my visits to Bundelkhand why Mayawati did not
visit them when they were facing the drought," the Congress leader
said, as he tried to project the his party as the 'messiah' of the
community.

"I have seen people starving in Bundelkhand and that is why our
government has brought the Right to Food bill," he said, adding it
would go a long way in mitigating the sufferings of the people in the
region and other parts of the State.

Referring to recent sacking of four ministers by Mayawati, he
observed: "Why did she not sack them when they were looting Central
funds. Didn't she knew this before? Who is she trying to fool? She
allowed them to loot for five years and removed them a month before
the polls."

"Mayawati sacked four corrupt ministers, but gave their portfolios to
another corrupt minister," he said referring to Maya's trusted aide
Naseemdudin Siddique.

The Congress leader referred to Babu Singh Kushwaha, former family
welfare minister in UP, who, he said, had been given the portfolio in
order to 'loot' the National Rural Health Mission funds.

"Now Kushwaha has been making rounds of the CBI to save himself," he said.

He also referred to his frequent visits to the villages and Dalit
households that his opponents has termed them 'drama'.

"If it is drama, then I will keep on enacting this drama," he said,
adding winning elections was not his intention. "I want to change the
state," he added.

"When Rajiv Gandhi had introduced computers, the opponents had called
him mad...see what that mad person has done," he said referring to the
information technology revolution as he exhorted people to give
Congress a chance.

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Friday, December 30, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Rajya Sabha debate: BSP slams Rahul on lokpal bill

[ZESTCaste] Dalits, Backwards not Safe under NDA: Purvey

[ZESTCaste] Maya hiding from dalits, behind a 40-foot wall in Lucknow: Rahul

[ZESTCaste] Dalit killed in clashes between protesters, police

[ZESTCaste] Dalits in UP suffered the most under Maya: Rahul

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