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Mayawati fires back; accuses Cong of being Raebareli-centric
Lucknow, Oct 15 (PTI) Stoking the controversy over a proposed rail coach factory in Sonia Gandhi's constituency, U.P. Chief Minister Mayawati Wednesday accused Congress of trying to take political mileage from the project ahead of Lok Sabha polls and ordered a probe into farmers' complaints on land acquisition.
A day after Gandhi declared in Rae Bareli that she was
willing to go to jail for the sake of development after the
authorities imposed prohibitory orders apparently to scuttle
her plans to hold a rally there, Mayawati, launching a counter
offensive, announced a 'maharally' to apprise people about the
"impediments created by the Centre" in developmental schemes.
"Congress is worried only about Rae Bareli but I am
worried about the whole of Uttar Pradesh," Mayawati told a
press conference, while countering Gandhi's charges that her
government was against development after it cancelled a land
allotment for the railway coach factory.
Taking a pot-shot at the Congress chief for terming
Rae Bareli and Amethi as "karmbhoomi of Firoze, Indira and
Rajiv Gandhi and now that of her and Rahul", Mayawati asked as
to how many jobs "have been given to people of Rae Bareli in
past 44 years of Congress rule in Uttar Pradesh and 48 years
of rule at the Centre.
"The bhoomipujan for the project is a mere drama for
taking political mileage ahead of Loksabha elections," the
Bahujan Samaj Party (B.S.P.)supremo said.
"Like Saifai was entire state for Samajwadi Party,
Raebareli and Amethi are the entire state for Congress. There
are already a number of factories in the district, Congress
should think beyond Rae Bareli and avoid regional imbalance,"
Mayawati said.
About the alleged protests by farmers on the
acquisition of their land for the factory, Mayawati said that
she had constituted a committee under Principal Secretary
Netram to inquire into objections of the farmers that will
submit its report to the government within three days.
"Cabinet will decide on the issue later on", she said
adding that the land allotment was not approved by the cabinet
due to a "goof-up" by officials of the previous regime.
Mayawati alleged that the Congress had put
impediments in schemes like Ganga and Yamuna expressways.
Stepping up her attack on the Centre, Mayawati alleged
that it was giving step-motherly treatment to Uttar Pradesh
and making baseless allegations against the B.S.P. government
by terming it "anti-development".
"We will hold a massive rally in Rae Bareli to apprise
people about the impediments created by the Centre in a number
of developmental schemes cleared by the state government,"
Mayawati said.
"This project in Rae Bareli and a similar project at
Bihar were launched simultaneously by Railways Minister Lalu
Prasad Yadav. While the work has started in Bihar, nothing
except false propaganda was initiated by the Congress here",
she said.
Advising Congress to set up 50 factories in the
backward Purvanchal (easter Uttar Pradesh) and Bundelkhand
regions, Mayawati said that if the Centre was ready the state
would provide land in these areas on priority basis.
On Gandhi's comment that she was even ready to go to
jail, Mayawati said, "if we wanted to display the power of the
state administration, then we would not have allowed her to
conduct a road show in Rae Bareli and would have arrested
her."
But "we had only asked her not to hold a public rally
in Lalganj following tension there. The prohibitory orders
were not imposed anywhere else in the district," she said.
The Chief Minister accused the Centre of sitting on a
proposal for construction of an airport at Jewar in Gautam
Buddh Nagar besides adopting a "dilly-dallying" tactics in
providing electricity to the state from central pool.
"Despite this the state government is giving maximum
electricity to Rae Bareli as compared to other districts,"
Mayawati said, adding unlike Congress, "B.S.P. is not doing
politics on issues of development".
Mayawati alleged that only the Congress party people
were benefiting in Rae Bareli while "the common people mostly
dalits and minorities are still living in pitiable condition
in Gandhi's karmabhoomi". PTI AP
A day after Gandhi declared in Rae Bareli that she was
willing to go to jail for the sake of development after the
authorities imposed prohibitory orders apparently to scuttle
her plans to hold a rally there, Mayawati, launching a counter
offensive, announced a 'maharally' to apprise people about the
"impediments created by the Centre" in developmental schemes.
"Congress is worried only about Rae Bareli but I am
worried about the whole of Uttar Pradesh," Mayawati told a
press conference, while countering Gandhi's charges that her
government was against development after it cancelled a land
allotment for the railway coach factory.
Taking a pot-shot at the Congress chief for terming
Rae Bareli and Amethi as "karmbhoomi of Firoze, Indira and
Rajiv Gandhi and now that of her and Rahul", Mayawati asked as
to how many jobs "have been given to people of Rae Bareli in
past 44 years of Congress rule in Uttar Pradesh and 48 years
of rule at the Centre.
"The bhoomipujan for the project is a mere drama for
taking political mileage ahead of Loksabha elections," the
Bahujan Samaj Party (B.S.P.)supremo said.
"Like Saifai was entire state for Samajwadi Party,
Raebareli and Amethi are the entire state for Congress. There
are already a number of factories in the district, Congress
should think beyond Rae Bareli and avoid regional imbalance,"
Mayawati said.
About the alleged protests by farmers on the
acquisition of their land for the factory, Mayawati said that
she had constituted a committee under Principal Secretary
Netram to inquire into objections of the farmers that will
submit its report to the government within three days.
"Cabinet will decide on the issue later on", she said
adding that the land allotment was not approved by the cabinet
due to a "goof-up" by officials of the previous regime.
Mayawati alleged that the Congress had put
impediments in schemes like Ganga and Yamuna expressways.
Stepping up her attack on the Centre, Mayawati alleged
that it was giving step-motherly treatment to Uttar Pradesh
and making baseless allegations against the B.S.P. government
by terming it "anti-development".
"We will hold a massive rally in Rae Bareli to apprise
people about the impediments created by the Centre in a number
of developmental schemes cleared by the state government,"
Mayawati said.
"This project in Rae Bareli and a similar project at
Bihar were launched simultaneously by Railways Minister Lalu
Prasad Yadav. While the work has started in Bihar, nothing
except false propaganda was initiated by the Congress here",
she said.
Advising Congress to set up 50 factories in the
backward Purvanchal (easter Uttar Pradesh) and Bundelkhand
regions, Mayawati said that if the Centre was ready the state
would provide land in these areas on priority basis.
On Gandhi's comment that she was even ready to go to
jail, Mayawati said, "if we wanted to display the power of the
state administration, then we would not have allowed her to
conduct a road show in Rae Bareli and would have arrested
her."
But "we had only asked her not to hold a public rally
in Lalganj following tension there. The prohibitory orders
were not imposed anywhere else in the district," she said.
The Chief Minister accused the Centre of sitting on a
proposal for construction of an airport at Jewar in Gautam
Buddh Nagar besides adopting a "dilly-dallying" tactics in
providing electricity to the state from central pool.
"Despite this the state government is giving maximum
electricity to Rae Bareli as compared to other districts,"
Mayawati said, adding unlike Congress, "B.S.P. is not doing
politics on issues of development".
Mayawati alleged that only the Congress party people
were benefiting in Rae Bareli while "the common people mostly
dalits and minorities are still living in pitiable condition
in Gandhi's karmabhoomi". PTI AP
