BSP shows people Sonia Gandhi's money garland
Deepak Gidwani / DNA
Thursday, March 25, 2010 19:13 ISTLast updated: Thursday, March 25,
2010 23:50 IST
Lucknow: The ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh (UP)
seemed to have put aside all administrative works on Thursday. For,
BSP workers were busy distributing Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's
photographs showing her wearing a garland of currency notes at a
public function.
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Brazenly carrying forward its counter-attack after a controversy
erupted over UP chief minister Mayawati's money garlands, an
unapologetic BSP also distributed photographs of senior BJP leader LK
Advani wearing crowns at various party rallies.
This was part of a purdah-faash (expose) campaign to counter BJP and
Congress, who were critical of the pomp and show at the BSP rally on
March 15.
The Congress was quick to claim that the photo showing Sonia with
money garland was fake.
UP PWD minister and BSP general secretary Naseemuddin Siddiqui
distributed Sonia's photographs showing her wearing a garland of
thousand-rupee notes at her Delhi residence. He said the garland was
presented to her by Balmiki Dalits. "When leaders of other parties
wear crowns and garlands of bank notes, no one raises a finger, but
when a Dalit's daughter does it, everyone has a problem," he remarked.
Congress termed the BSP offensive "shameful". UP Congress chief Rita
Bahuguna Joshi told reporters that the BSP was resorting to
"disgraceful tactics" to score political points. .
UP BJP president Ramapati Ram Tripathi lashed out at the BSP for
distributing photographs of LK Advani wearing a crown. "Party workers
honour Advaniji on various occasions, but our leaders don't announce
shamelessly that they will wear garlands only made of currency notes,
like Mayawati did," he said angrily.
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