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Mayawati lauds her 3 years of rule in UP
IANS
Lucknow: Not more than one percent of the state's budget has been
spent on memorials to Dalit icons, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Mayawati on Thursday said, extolling three years of her Bahujan Samaj
Party (BSP) government as an environment free of terror, crime,
injustice and corruption.
The opposition parties, however, flayed her governance. The Congress,
the Samajwadi Party (SP) or the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were all
of the view that the three years of Mayawati regime have pushed the
state backwards.
Besides plunder of the state exchequer for fulfilling her personal
whims and fancies, they charged her with failing to do anything
positive for the development of the state or the wellbeing of its
people.
Addressing a press conference to mark three years of the BSP rule in
the state, Mayawati staunchly defended the construction of memorials
and statues to herself and Dalit icons.
"Yes, I have built memorials and statues to commemorate the rich
contribution of such personalities who had done yeoman social service
and reforms, but their work never received due recognition in
successive Congress governments or the other regimes," she said.
Justifying the allocation of more than Rs 6,000 crore towards these
memorials, she asserted: "Whatever I have spent each year towards
commemoration of these icons was not more than one percent of the
state's annual budget."
"What my government has achieved over a period of three years, since
we rode on to power entirely on our own strength, cannot be matched by
any other political party that has ever remained in power in the
state."
Claiming there was "utter jungle raj" when the BSP assumed office in
May 2007, she said: "And I am proud of the fact that in three years, I
have been able to create a terror-free, fear-free, crime-free,
injustice-free and corruption-free environment by putting the law of
the land back on the rails."
In her view, her government "could have done wonders" had the central
government extended cooperation in adequately sharing the cost of
various development programmes. She accused it of depriving the state
of Rs.17,000 crore, "the state's legitimate share towards various
schemes already carried out over the past three years".
Focusing on the Congress-led government's "conspiracy" against her
regime, Mayawati recalled how New Delhi had not paid any attention to
her repeated demand for a special economic package of Rs 80,000 crore
for the uplift of Bundelkhand and Purvanchal.
Unlike in the past, Mayawati did not hold a big bash on her
government's anniversary. But senior bureaucrats, police officials and
the media were treated to a sumptuous lunch.
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav issued a six-page statement
condemning Mayawati in general and criticising her government on each
and every count.
Dismissing her proclamations about improving law and order in the
state, Mulayam termed her claims "false and baseless as several
criminals were holding key positions as ministers in her government."
"How could her claim about creating a terror-free environment be true,
when she was herself allegedly involved in extortion and she had
herself given legitimacy to various criminal and mafia activities?" he
asked.
Congress spokesman Subodh Srivastava flayed the Mayawati government
for demolishing all democratic norms and values and for
institutionalising corruption.
"The crime situation could not be worse than it was prevailing under
the Mayawati regime, where those directly engaged in arson and
vandalism at the state Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi's residence
were rewarded with positions in the rank of ministers."
Referring to the Mayawati government by elephant symbol, state BJP
spokesman Hriday Narain Dixit said: "The elephant has trampled the
aspirations of the people. While farmers have been crushed, the youth
have been oppressed and traders brow-beaten."
"Mayawati was responsible for crushing all democratic institutions,
for which she displayed very little respect," he added.
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