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Opposition slams Maya for 'wasting' money on tour
Piyush Srivastava | Lucknow, March 5, 2011 | Updated 18:30 IST
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The month- long first phase of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati
's inspection tour of state development works has stirred Opposition
parties into conducting a cost-benefit analysis.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leaders defended the tour, claiming that
from February 2 to March 2, Mayawati visited 81 Kanshi Ram urban
housing schemes, 80 urban slums, 88 hospitals, 148 tehsil offices and
148 police stations.
She also suspended 20 state government employees, including police
officers and doctors, and warned all senior officers to expedite
development works or face the music.
An officer of the state government's information department claimed
that she has also given a two-week deadline to district magistrates to
ensure that members of the scheduled castes ( SC) get lease land and
asked the in-charges of police stations to combat crimes against
dalits.
Her rivals, however, claim that during the 28- day tour, at least Rs
300 crore was spent on her security and the police of four districts
were deployed wherever she went.
The main Opposition, the Samajwadi Party ( SP), alleged that her tour
was meant to pressure officers to expedite party fund collection ahead
of the 2012 assembly election.
SP leader Shivpal Singh Yadav said: "Mayawati has realised that she
will lose the next election.
"So she visited the districts to force the officers to extort money
from the people for her party. The common man was kept away from her
and the police resorted to baton- charges on women, youth, lawyers and
teachers at various places." Yadav added that his party would launch a
statewide agitation from March 7 to March 9.
Akhilesh Pratap Singh, UP Congress spokesperson, said: "It is true
that people are placed under undeclared house arrest wherever the CM
goes. Even the mayor of Bareilly, Supriya Aron, was locked in her own
house." "Aron was detained when she escaped in a burqa and tried to
meet the CM. More than 50 people were arrested in the state for trying
to meet the CM. We are happy that her tour is over, so that the people
are spared undeclared curfews," Singh added.
However, Swami Prasad Maurya, BSP state president, said: "The
Opposition is misinforming the masses. The fact is that the people
wait for hours just to have a glimpse of the CM." "Our rivals should
go to the districts and see how things have improved," he added.
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