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Mayawati plays caste card ahead of Uttarakhand polls
ANI Posted online: Wed Jan 25 2012, 17:51 hrs
Rudrapur : Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Mayawati has urged the people of Uttarakhand to elect a party
that is focussed on the needs of the lower castes.
Addressing a rally here on Tuesday, Mayawati said that all political
parties, including the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
had failed to tap the needs of minorities in the country.
"It is sad to see that after all these years of independence, the
economic condition of the poor and downtrodden people of society,
especially those of lower castes including scheduled castes, scheduled
tribes, other backward classes and even the minorities like Sikhs,
Muslims, Christians has not seen much improvement," Mayawati added.
Raising the issue of rising inflation in the country, she said her
party had repeatedly asked the Congress party to focus on the needs of
the many rather than some industrial power houses.
Due to the incompetent economic policies of the government inflation
in the country has risen to new levels that has put a heavy burden on
the poor and middle classes all over the country, including
Uttarakhand. In this regard, our party has repeatedly urged the
federal government to adopt the economic policy that would provide
growth to the people of this country, rather than some selected
industrialists," Mayawati added.
Political mercury is at a high in poll-bound Uttarakhand state, where
the main fight is between the current incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party
and the Congress Party.
Polling for the Uttarakhand legislative assembly would be held on January 30.
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