Rahul accuses Maya of betrayal

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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, on Thursday, took his battle in Uttar Pradesh to the next level when he directly accused Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and UP chief minister Mayawati of betraying the people of UP.

“When you take into accounts the regimes of Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav, the people of Uttar Pradesh lose hope for all-round development of the state,” he said while addressing a gathering of party workers in Balrampur district on Thursday.
Mr Gandhi, who is presently on a five day mass contact programme in Central and eastern Uttar Pradesh, has been targeting the non Congress regimes in Uttar Pradesh for the lack of development in the state.
“Under the Mayawati regime, people do not have access to good roads, drinking water, electricity and other basic amenities. In the Samajwadi regime, police stations were being run by criminals. In 2007, you gave a majority to the BSP and trusted them to deliver but have you got the basic amenities? You trusted the Samajwadi party earlier but did you get justice?” he asked.
He said that BSP and SP run the government for “10 per cent” of the population while the remaining 90 per cent keep waiting for their turn.
He assured that the Congress would form a government which would work for development and growth of the entire 100 per cent population.
Mr Gandhi termed Mulayam Singh Yadav as an opportunist leader and said that though he claimed to be pro-minority, he did not hesitate in joining hands with Kalyan Singh. He also said that Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party was nowhere to be seen in the fight for farmers when they lost their land.
“Everyone talks about the Sachchar committee but who set up the Sachchar committee? The Congress set it up and we will give you the benefits too,” he said.
Incidentally, even as Mr Gandhi was speaking, he heard the ‘azaan’ and stopped his speech as a mark of respect.
Resuming his speech after a few minutes, he said. “These are leaders who do not reach out to the people. They do not drink their water, eat their food and even fall ill. Unless you do this, you cannot understand what the common man goes through. I have been to your homes, eaten you food and I know what you go through. These leaders ridicule me when I visit your homes and say I am doing ‘natak’. But I will continue to do this ‘natak’ and reach out to you.”