Rahul a casteist, didn't eat food offered by Dalits: BSP
Ashish Tripathi, TNN | Jul 8, 2011, 04.17pm IST
The BSP claims that Rahul stayed at a house of a person belonging to
Scheduled Caste (SC) in Marodgarhi village, Aligarh, but did not eat
anything offered to him.
LUCKNOW: The BSP has accused Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi
of being a casteist. The party claimed that Rahul stayed at a house of
a person belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC) in Marodgarhi village,
Aligarh, but did not eat anything offered to him.
The accusation has come on the fourth day of Rahul Gandhi's foot-march
in UP. He is expected to cover villages in Mathura and Agra affected
by land acquisition by the UP government for Yamuna Expressway and
associated projects. The march, which Congress has named as Kisan
Sandesh Yatra will culminate in a 'mahapanchayat' at Aligarh on
Saturday. The panchayat is expected to be attended by farmers from
across western UP.
Rahul plans to take suggestions from the farmers over land acquisition
and incorporate it in the land acquisition amendment bill which UPA
government has promised to pass in the monsoon session of Parliament.
On Friday, Rahul urged Aligarh and Mathura villagers not to accept a
single penny less than the market rate for their land acquired by the
state government.He told villagers that "people in the city get market
rate when they sell their land, whereas in villages land is being
forcibly acquired by the state government at throwaway prices and sell
10 times high rate to private companies who again sell it 5 to 10
times higher rate." He also added that farmers should unite themselves
and demand market price for their land from the state government.
At Devika village, he said that politicians should visit villages to
find out ground realities. "While sitting in Delhi and Lucknow, we are
unaware of the real problems and issues in the villages," he said. He
added that he learned a lot through direct interaction with the
villagers and though he had been a member of parliament for many
years, he wasn't aware of them before. He said that farmers also
wanted development and were not against land acquisition if given
adequate compensation and alternate source of livelihood. Rahul said
that besides farmers, land acquisition also affected landless
labourers and artisans in the village.
Earlier, the BSP had accused the centre of resorting to step-motherly
treatment towards UP by not releasing financial aid on time. In the
past four years, financial aid amounting to Rs 21,000 crore was never
given on time to the state for development works. The Centre, it
accused, "has also not accepted the demand for Rs 80,000 crore special
economic package for the development of east UP and Bundelkhand."
The BSP lament against the centre came as a counter attack to Rahul
Gandhi's remark on Thursday that UP was being run by touts.
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