Dalits in UP suffered the most under Maya: Rahul
Lucknow, December 27, DHNS:
In an apparent attempt to make a dent in the Mayawati's Dalit vote
bank, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the
Dalit community had suffered the most during the BSP supremo's regime
even as he termed the recent sacking of the four UP ministers by her
as an 'eyewash'.
"Mayawati calls herself leader of the Dalits, but the latter have
suffered the most in her rule," Rahul said while addressing election
meetings at Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur-Kheri district, about 150
kilometres from here, recalling the recurring droughts in the
impoverished Bundelkhand region of the state.
"Dalits asked me during my visits to Bundelkhand why Mayawati did not
visit them when they were facing the drought," the Congress leader
said, as he tried to project the his party as the 'messiah' of the
community.
"I have seen people starving in Bundelkhand and that is why our
government has brought the Right to Food bill," he said, adding it
would go a long way in mitigating the sufferings of the people in the
region and other parts of the State.
Referring to recent sacking of four ministers by Mayawati, he
observed: "Why did she not sack them when they were looting Central
funds. Didn't she knew this before? Who is she trying to fool? She
allowed them to loot for five years and removed them a month before
the polls."
"Mayawati sacked four corrupt ministers, but gave their portfolios to
another corrupt minister," he said referring to Maya's trusted aide
Naseemdudin Siddique.
The Congress leader referred to Babu Singh Kushwaha, former family
welfare minister in UP, who, he said, had been given the portfolio in
order to 'loot' the National Rural Health Mission funds.
"Now Kushwaha has been making rounds of the CBI to save himself," he said.
He also referred to his frequent visits to the villages and Dalit
households that his opponents has termed them 'drama'.
"If it is drama, then I will keep on enacting this drama," he said,
adding winning elections was not his intention. "I want to change the
state," he added.
"When Rajiv Gandhi had introduced computers, the opponents had called
him mad...see what that mad person has done," he said referring to the
information technology revolution as he exhorted people to give
Congress a chance.
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