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Maya hiding from dalits, behind a 40-foot wall in Lucknow: Rahul
TNN | Dec 30, 2011, 04.12AM IST
LUCKNOW: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused
the UP chief minister Mayawati of hiding from the people.
"It seems she is afraid of being amid dalits and the poor. That is why
she stays inside a 40-foot-high boundary wall in Lucknow. Though she
claims to be a leader of the dalits, Mayawati has not visited a single
dalit home in the last five years. She lives in her mansion fenced by
high walls," he said while addressing a public meeting in Pilibhit
during his third phase of campaign for assembly elections.
Gandhi scion alleged that Mayawati dismisses a minister, accusing him
of corruption, and then replaces him with an even more corrupt
minister. "A few days ago, she dismissed four ministers. On Wednesday,
she dismissed two more, and then she handed over the charge of their
departments to another minister, who is more corrupt than the ones he
has replaced. One month before the elections, she is trying to fool
the public with these antics," he said while referring to Mayawati's
right hand man Naseemuddin Siddiqui who has over a dozen departments
under him as a cabinet minister.
Citing an example of the poor state of governance in UP, Rahul said
"In a village I visited recently, I found 500 farmers waiting in a
queue for fertiliser. They were told there was no fertiliser, yet when
I went inside I saw piles of sacks containing fertiliser. The farmers
were being denied because the fertiliser found its way to the black
market under the cover of darkness."
The Congress general secretary said that the Food Security Bill would
provide food to the poorest sections of the society.
The bill would ensure that millions in UP receive 35 kilograms of
foodgrain. Though the greatest beneficiaries would be dalits, Mayawati
considers this a joke, he said.
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