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Now, Maya promises ‘achhe din’, slams rivals SP, BJP, Congress
ALLAHABAD: Promising the return of ‘achhe din’ in Uttar Pradesh, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Sunday appealed to the people to vote her party back
ALLAHABAD: Promising the return of ‘achhe din’ in Uttar Pradesh, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Sunday appealed to the people to vote her party back to power ‘with absolute majority’ in the forthcoming assembly polls.
Addressing a ‘sarvjan sukhaysarvjan hitay’ rally here, Mayawati tore into the Congress and BJP, accusing the latter of failing to keep the “tall promises made in last elections”. She also criticised the Samajwadi Party government for the poor law and order situation in UP.
“Post-Independence, Congress ruled UP for 37 years. It is owing to its poor policies and governance that the party first lost power in the state and then at the Centre. Today, the party lacks leaders and has been forced to rope in an old woman from Delhi as its CM candidate who, while in power, blamed people of UP and Bihar for the ills of Delhi,” the BSP chief said.
Mayawati said before coming to power, BJP and its PM candidate Narendra Modi made tall promises of ‘better days’ but only gifted ‘worse days’ to the people.
“The government at the Centre is being run by rich industrialists and it is trying to benefit them. They are trying to frame a law for easy land acquisitions to benefit the rich besides also marketing their products.
Central government waived off loans of industrialists and the rich worth Rs1.14 lakh crore, even as farmers and workers who have taken small loans of Rs 1-2 lakh were hounded and harassed so much that many of them committed suicide,” she said.
The BSP chief also asked the Congress why it did not implement 10% reservation for upper castes on economic grounds when it was in power at the Centre.
Mayawati said she had been demanding reservation for Muslims and other religious minorities on economic lines but the Congress and the BJP had turned a deaf ear to her.
“Under the garb of reviewing reservation policy, the BJP was acting on RSS agenda and trying to undermine the constitutional rights of the Dalits, tribals and the backwards. If Congress ended reservation in promotions, the BJP privatised majority of works of various ministries, benefitting industrialists and gradually ending reservation benefits,” she added.
