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PCC fails to put up ?united front?
THE PRADESH Congress Committee (PCC) has again failed to put up a ?united front? before the much-hyped rally of the Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
THE PRADESH Congress Committee (PCC) has again failed to put up a ‘united front’ before the much-hyped rally of the Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
The lack of unity was clearly evident when UPCC president Salman Khurshid and a senior party leader Jagdambika Pal convened two separate Press conferences within a span of half-an-hour on here on Sunday.
Both the Congress leaders lambasted the Samajwadi Party government and Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav in particular and stressed upon the importance of Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s rally on August 8.
Talking to newsmen, Salman Khurshid said, “At national level, Congress has to meet head-on with BJP and in the State it has to fight against the lawlessness of the State Government.”
However, the State Congress President had no answer to a query related to the chief ministerial candidate of the Congress before the elections.
Replying to a query that unlike BJP, which had projected Kalyan Singh, BSP projecting Mayawati and SP projecting Mulayam Singh Yadav, Congress party had not projected any candidate for the post of CM, Khurshid said, “Congress party never announces any candidate for the post of CM and the same policy is followed in all states.”
On the recent feelers of SP leader Amar Singh to former Foreign Minister Natwar Singh, Khurshid said, “Amar Singh has no credibility and the day he will have the slightest idea that his boat is sinking he will switcher over to another party.”
Khurshid also accused Amar Singh of bringing disgrace to Samajwadi Party.
Criticising the unemployment allowance distributed by the CM, the State Congress president said, “All credit for starting such schemes goes to Congress. Uttar Pradesh is the biggest beneficiary of the ‘Prime Minister Rozgar Yojna’ of the Congress government.” He said that 22 districts of the State were getting benefits of this scheme.
On the rising prices of essential commodities, he stated that every Union Government had to pass through this phase once in its tenure.
Former State president of the party Jagdambika Pal also flayed the State Government for its anti-people policies.
“Saifai has no industries but getting 24 hours power supply. On the other hand one of the biggest industrial city of the State — Kanpur — is going without power for more than 15 hours,” Pal stated. .
Criticising the State Government for its decision of opening a medical college in Saifai, Pal said, “Kanpur has the largest influx of patients from its adjoining districts and therefore it must have been given priority for any new addition or up-gradation in the medical facilities.”
He also accused the State Government of giving preference to members of a particular community in government job.
Meanwhile, State president of Youth Congress Nadim Ashraf Jaisi claimed that the nearly 50 per cent youths would comprise the total strength of rally of the Congress president Sonia Gandhi at Phoolbagh on August 8. Jaisi was in the city to review the preparations being made by the District Youth Congress for the success of Sonia Gandhi's rally.
