Sonia slams Mayawati on lack of development in Uttar Pradesh
BS Reporter / New Delhi May 18, 2010, 1:42 IST
With Union Budget 2010-11 passed in Parliament defeating an united
opposition, and with no legislative agenda for the next two months,
the Congress today trained its gun on arch rival Bahujan Samaj Party
(BSP) on its turf, Uttar Pradesh (UP).
This time, the attack came from none other than Sonia Gandhi,
president of the Congress party.
During a trip to Rae Bareli, her Lok Sabha constituency, Sonia Gandhi
slammed UP Chief Minister and BSP leader Mayawati for "misrule and
lack of development". The state is slated to go for elections in 2012.
The Congress, during the past few elections have maintained to go solo
and fight Mayawati's BSP, Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party (SP)
and the BJP simultaneously.
It may be recalled that during a vote on the Budget, when the Left,
the BJP and other parties had brought a cut motion against fuel price
hike, the SP and the RJD staged a walkout weakening the Opposition
strength and the BSP supported the government to pass the demands for
grants of the Budget.
Today, on the first day of her visit, Sonia Gandhi was faced with
angry protestors suffering from massive power cuts in her
constituency. Her convoy was stopped by large groups of angry
villagers on the way to Dalmau. Rae Bareli has been experiencing 10
hours of power cut almost every day, as the state reels from a power
deficit of 1,351 million units. The Congress president heard out the
grievances of the protestors.
Soon, she took up the issue of development to launch an attack on
Mayawati. She said: "A sorry state of affairs continues in the largest
electoral state." She alleged that despite the Centre's liberal
assistance, money was not being spent for development programmes.
"Though the Centre is providing crores of rupees to the state for
development and welfare schemes, I have been told that the people of
UP still face problems of shortage of seeds, fertiliser and potable
water," she said at a party workers' meet.
Taking a dig at Mayawati's repeated allegations that the Centre
treated UP in a step-motherly manner, Sonia Gandhi said: "Everyone
knows how the state government treats Rae Bareli and Amethi."
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