Anti-Cong tirade rules Maya celebration

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For those who expected some new announcements, there was disappointment in store. UP chief minister Mayawati, on completion of three years in office, did not make any new announcements but continued her tirade

against the Congress. She listed the achievements of her government but offered no indications of her politics in future.
The chief minister released a booklet called Kendriya Yojana ka kadva sach and UP ki upeksha that reads like a virtual chargesheet against the central government. The booklet will be distributed among party cadres who will use its contents to spread awareness amongst the voters about the ground realities in the centre-state relationship and the achievements of the Mayawati government.
“The Congress has been giving step motherly treatment to Uttar Pradesh and wants to turn it into ‘Pichchda Pradesh’. The centre has held back funds to the tune of Rs 17,000 crores which has slowed down the speed of development in the state,” she said while addressing a press conference here on Thursday to mark her three years in office.
The chief minister listed the achievements of her government, detailed the various welfare schemes launched by her from time to time and pointed out that her government had shown encouraging results on the development and law and order front.
“We could have done more if the centre had cooperated with us,” she added. Ms Mayawati, once again, defended her decision to build parks and memorials and reiterated that her government had spent merely one per cent of the total budget on this.
The function to mark three years of Mayawati government, meanwhile, was kept a low key affair with no cultural programmes to mark the occasion. Ministers were conspicuous by their absence and only senior bureaucrats presented bouquets to the chief minister at the function.
The state information department had put up huge hoardings that listed the achievements of the government in fine print. The usually flamboyance that marks such events in the BSP regime, was nowhere to be seen.