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Digvijay's tirade shows Cong's anti-dalit mentality: BSP
October 16, 2011 21:20 IST
Taking strong exception to Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh's
[ Images ] criticism of Uttar Pradesh [ Images ] chief minister
Mayawati's [ Images ] fad for her personal statues and monuments, the
ruling Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh has termed the tirade as a
"reflection of the Congress party's anti-dalit mentality."
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Reacting to Singh's statement, an unnamed BSP spokesman (sounding more
like Mayawati herself) issued a stinging rejoinder on Sunday evening,
not only condemning the Congress on various counts but also
threatening "to teach the Congress a lesson at the forthcoming 2012
state assembly election."
Claiming that the installation of Mayawati's statues was being done in
fulfillment of her political mentor and BSP founder Kanshi Ram's last
wishes, the press statement said, "Congress leaders see nothing wrong
about the erection of statues and monuments after various members of
the Gandhi-Nehru family all over the country, but they have serious
objection to a few monuments built by me to commemorate those great
social reformers who championed the cause of downtrodden dalits".
He went on to add, "The UP chief minister has no craving to get her
own statues installed; what has been done was to uphold the wishes of
the late Kandhi Ram, who had explicitly spelt it out in his written
will that her statues be installed in every memorial erected in his
honour or in memory of other dalit icons."
With a view to justifying the expenditure of over Rs. 6000 crores on
these memorials and statues in Lucknow [ Images ], and in Noida, the
spokesman sought to claim, "The Congress leader is clearly trying to
mislead the public by giving a false impression that lots of money has
gone into those constructions when the fact remains that the
expenditure was not more than one percent of the each year's budget."
Significantly, UP's annual budget was of the order of Rs. 165,000
crores.
Reacting to the corruption charge against Mayawati, the BSP spokesman
felt that it was high time for the Congress leader to realise that
those who lived in glass houses should not throw stones. "Digvijay has
no business making wild accusation of corruption against the BSP
government when his own Congress-led United Progressive Alliance [
Images ] regime was neck-deep in various scams including 2G, 3G and
Commonwealth games [ Images ] bungling," the spokesman pointed out.
Sharat Pradhan Lucknow
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