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SP, BSP flayed for promising cheap liquor, arms licences
TNN | Jan 7, 2012, 03.43AM IST
LUCKNOW: Politicians in Uttar Pradesh are now openly promising cheap
liquor and free-for-all firearm licences if voted to power in the
assembly election.
After Samajwadi Party (SP) state president Akhilesh Yadav sought
public support at a public meeting in Bhimnagar pointing out that the
prices of alcohol have gone up in the Mayawati regime, Bahujan Samaj
Party (BSP) leader and social welfare minister in Mayawati's
government Indrajeet Saroj, at a public meeting in Kaushambi, assured
people that firearms licences will be distributed in large numbers in
the area if BSP continues in power after the election.
Yadav, who has opposed the entry of west Uttar Pradesh mafia don D P
Yadav in SP, landed in a controversy on Thursday when he said that not
only the prices of petrol and diesel have gone up, people are not
evening getting their daily dose of 'evening medicine' (liquor) as
prices have shot up.
He said that people who consume alcohol are the real campaigners of
the party. He said those who consume 'sham ki dawa' are with the SP
and thus, they are the party's real campaigners. Saroj, on the other
hand, promised voters firearm licences in exchange for support to the
BSP.
He said that people need firearm licence for self protection. Saroj
was apparently trying to appease the people in the area where firearms
are a status symbol. Most people in the upper castes have firearms.
Lower castes now also aspire to match upper castes. While the Congress
party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have lashed out at the BSP
and SP for stooping low for electoral gains, the Election Commission
has reports from district administrations of Kaushambi and Moradabad
on the above issues.
Bharatiya Janata Party leaders said that this shows how desperate the
SP and BSP are to grab power. Congress leaders, on the other hand,
said that the promises made by the SP and BSP leaders are unethical
and open violation of model code of conduct.
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