Maya in poll mode, attacks Cong
Facing heat from the Congress in the run-up to next year’s UP Assembly polls, BSP supremo Mayawati on Thursday went on the offensive in an attempt to turn the table by raising the Commonwealth Games scam and corruption issues in a party workers’ meet in Delhi.
Sounding a warning, Ms Mayawati also threatened to lay siege to the Parliament in the upcoming Monsoon Session if the Central government failed to formulate a national policy on land acquisition.
In a no-holds-barred attack on the Congress, Ms Mayawati told her party workers that “several scams exposed in the recent times have shamed the entire country apart from maligning the image of the country internationally”.
Ms Mayawati called upon the party workers to gear up for a long drawn out agitation to counter the Congress’ offensive against her government in UP.
The BSP supremo was apparently referring to the Congress’ offensive against her government in UP on the issues of farmers’ resentment and deteriorating law and order situation.
Going on the offensive against the Congress for its campaign in Uttar Pradesh after the farmers’ agitation in the Bhatta-Parsaul village, Ms Mayawati asked her rivals to look into the poor conditions of farmers in Maharashtra, Delhi, Haryana, Rajsthan, Madhya Pradesh and Gujrat.
She exhaustively quoted the rate at which land was being acquired in these states and even mentioned about the agitation being carried out there at the local level.
Calling the Commonwealth Games scam a national shame, Ms Mayawati said that “it was a setback to the honour and self-pride of the people of the national capital”.
The BSP supremo, who addressed the party workers in Delhi in the run up to the next year’s MCD elections, also set the tone of the electioneering by stating that if the CWG scam money were recovered the whole of the capital could develop in an all round manner. “The scam money can take care of the developmental needs of all the unauthorised colonies apart from laying down the water and sewer lines in the capital,” Ms Mayawati told the party workers.
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