Rahul gives oust Mayawati call, she hits back
HP News Network | November 25, 2011
Lucknow : Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Friday called for
the ouster of Chief Minister Mayawati and for bringing back the
Congress party in Uttar Pradesh, as Mayawati dismissed him as a
"dynastic inheritor without substance".
The war of words between the Uttar Pradesh chief minister and the
Congress leader continued on the fourth consecutive day, with both
taking pot-shots at each other.
The Congress' star campaigner was on the final leg of his five-day
mass-contact tour of certain parts of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, where he
was busy trying to infuse some energy into the otherwise dormant party
as a part of his preparation for the forthcoming state assembly
elections.
If Rahul was busy accusing Mayawati of remaining confined to her ivory
tower and therefore being oblivious to the plight of the poor, the
Uttar Pradesh chief minister let her party spokesman hit back at the
Congress general secretary by terming his forays into Dalit homes as a
"gimmick".
Refuting Rahul's allegations, Mayawati highlighted how she and her
mentor and BSP founder Kanshi Ram had traversed across different parts
of the country – "even on foot and bicycle" – like ordinary citizens .
Rahul gave a call at Siddharthnagar, about 250 km from here, for
Mayawati's ouster and to "bring back the Congress for complete
transformation of Uttar Pradesh in 10 years".
Mayawati retaliated, asking "what the Congress had done for UP's
development in its 40 years of rule over the state?"
Taking strong exception to his remarks, BSP state spokesman Swami
Prasad Maurya hit back at the Congress general secretary, accusing him
of "attempting to mislead the people of the state through his lies".
Contradicting Rahul's charge of "misgovernance by Mayawati", the BSP
spokesman said in a statement issued here Thursday, "I would like to
ask the Congress yuvraj (prince) to explain whether his party had done
anything to remove poverty and unemployment."
Flaying Rahul for making sweeping remarks against the BSP and its
leadership, he said, "it was hightime Rahul did some introspection to
feel and understand the pain and sorrow of the poor and the
downtrodden."
Maurya sought to dismiss Rahul's remarks against the BSP and its top
leadership as "reflection of his poor knowledge and insight about the
struggle and history of the BSP." While issuing an outline of the
evolution of the party from 1977, he also sought to draw a comparison
between the BSP and the Congress.
"While Rahul was just an inheritor of a legacy that was given to him
on a platter, BSP founder Kanshi Ram and his lieutenant Mayawati had
struggled for years to fight for the cause of the most downtrodden
section of society and to build the party from a scratch," the
spokesman said.
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