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BSP flashes photo of Sonia with money garland
Posted On: 25-Mar-2010 21:48:38 Source: Agencies
Lucknow: In a sharp retort to the Congress party's tirade against the
flaunting of a currency note garland by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Mayawati at a recent Bahujan Samaj Party rally in Lucknow, state
Public Works Department minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui on Thursday
fished out a photograph of Congress president Sonia Gandhi wearing a
currency note garland.
The display of the picture remained the highlight of the party's
unique statewide protest against what the party leadership termed as
'petty politicking by all opposition parties'.
Addressing a protest rally of BSP workers at the Lucknow Collectorate,
Siddiqui also displayed photos of two other opposition leaders donning
similar 'royal' insignias.
While a photograph of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran Lal Krishna
Advani showed him donning a silver crown on his head, another showed
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav swinging a silver gada (a
spherical weapon believed to have been used by Lord Hanuman).
"No one raises even an eyebrow if Sonia Gandhi receives a currency
note garland; no one talks about LK Advani wearing a silver crown; and
even when Mulayam Singh Yadav flaunts a silver gada no one minds that.
But all hell breaks loose if a Dalit's daughter is offered a garland
of currency notes," Siddiqui told the gathering amidst cheers.
He claimed, "The opposition was trying to frustrate the rally from day
one. Initially, they got a PIL filed against holding of the rally.
When they did not succeed with that, they engineered disturbing of a
beehive, leading to rush of a swarm of bees to the rally venue.
However, that too failed as the bees chose to settle down under the
shade of the dais without causing any kind of disturbance to anyone or
biting anybody. Therefore, the opposition eventually raised the
garland bogey."
Slogans of virodhiyon hosh mein aao; behenji se mat takrao (Opponents
come to your senses, don't take on Mayawati) rent the air as a series
of BSP leaders addressed the gathering, singing praises for Mayawati
and flaying the opposition.
Showing photographs of Congress president wearing a crown and a
currency garland around her neck, Siddiqui took a dig at Congress
leader Digvijay Singh who had criticised Mayawati on the garland
issue.
"There is one Congress leader, who was also a chief minister of Madhya
Pradesh, who is working in Uttar Pradesh these days and who has been
terming the garland offered to Mayawati as against the RBI norms. I
would like to ask him whether the one in Congress president's neck is
not against the norms," he said.
Asking the Congressmen to "peep into their hearts", Siddiqui said
'that when their leaders wear currency garlands they feel elated but
when a Dalit ki beti (daughter of a Dalit) wears it they raise a
question mark over it".
Reacting to BSP's charge about the note garland also worn by Sonia
Gandhi, UP Congress spokesman Akhilesh Pratap Singh said, "All I wish
to point out in a nutshell is that while Sonia Gandhi with all her
inheritance of four Nehru-Gandhi generations has total assets worth Rs
1.32 crore , Mayawati's officially declared assets have already shot
up to Rs 62 crore in a matter of just four years."
Reacting to Advani's photo being flashed by the BSP, BJP's UP unit
president Hriday Narain Dixit said: "The two things (crown and cash
garland) cannot be compared. We demand that the BSP tell the people
about the source of the garland which was offered to Mayawati."
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