Gr Noida campaign only the beginning, says Rahul
VARANASI/LUCKNOW: Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday warned the Maywati government that he would intensify his campaign against land acquisition but was mum on his allegations of women being raped and farmers going missing in the Greater Noida confrontation. He was speaking to Congress leaders a day after evidence mounted that the accounts of atrocities on farmers appeared exaggerated.
Rahul said the campaign in Bhatta-Parsaul was just the beginning and he would wage war on illicit land acquisition. "Abhi to main Bhatta-Parsaul gaya tha ab dekhiye kya kya karta hoon (I had just been to Bhatta-Parsaul now. Just wait an watch what I do next)," Rahul told party cadres at the UPCC executive committee meet in Varanasi.
Rahul had visited the twin hamlets in Greater Noida, the scene of a bloody confrontation between security forces and farmers on May 7.
"There is no dearth of issues and I have enough time," Rahul said and assured grassroots-level workers that he would cover each nook and cranny in UP, holding their hands and fighting alongside.
That Bhatta-Parsaul episode could become the focal point for rallying farmers in the coming elections became evident with the party mascot devoting greater part of his address to the episode. Narrating his experience ^ fear-stricken farmers and missing men and women in hiding ^ he put the state government in the dock for its questionable claims of normalcy.
"Why are people running away from the two villages and why hasn't the state government lifted Section 144 if all is well?" he asked. Elaborating on the state governments attempts to "mislead the country", he narrated how the local SDM told him that the Bhatta-Parsaul violence was the handiwork of Maoists and not farmers. Rahul raised a question mark on the Maya governments reluctance to institute a judicial inquiry into the incident. "Let the true picture emerge by ordering a fair and impartial probe," he said.
In a scathing attack on the BSP regime, the young MP listed misutilisation of Central funds like MNREGS as one of the prime causes for slow development in UP. He said he had seen the kind of hardship people in Bundelkhand faced and met the prime minister for allocation of a special package, but the UP CM neither bothered to visit the region nor took any remedial measures.
"In fact, Mayawati had even declined the offer and said UP did not need MNREGS," Rahul said. He was trying to ensure that the funds allocated to UP reached the beneficiaries and that UP could be brought at par with other sates, he said, and added that his confrontation with BSP would continue till the time Mayawati was ousted.
Rahul said the campaign in Bhatta-Parsaul was just the beginning and he would wage war on illicit land acquisition. "Abhi to main Bhatta-Parsaul gaya tha ab dekhiye kya kya karta hoon (I had just been to Bhatta-Parsaul now. Just wait an watch what I do next)," Rahul told party cadres at the UPCC executive committee meet in Varanasi.
Rahul had visited the twin hamlets in Greater Noida, the scene of a bloody confrontation between security forces and farmers on May 7.
"There is no dearth of issues and I have enough time," Rahul said and assured grassroots-level workers that he would cover each nook and cranny in UP, holding their hands and fighting alongside.
That Bhatta-Parsaul episode could become the focal point for rallying farmers in the coming elections became evident with the party mascot devoting greater part of his address to the episode. Narrating his experience ^ fear-stricken farmers and missing men and women in hiding ^ he put the state government in the dock for its questionable claims of normalcy.
"Why are people running away from the two villages and why hasn't the state government lifted Section 144 if all is well?" he asked. Elaborating on the state governments attempts to "mislead the country", he narrated how the local SDM told him that the Bhatta-Parsaul violence was the handiwork of Maoists and not farmers. Rahul raised a question mark on the Maya governments reluctance to institute a judicial inquiry into the incident. "Let the true picture emerge by ordering a fair and impartial probe," he said.
In a scathing attack on the BSP regime, the young MP listed misutilisation of Central funds like MNREGS as one of the prime causes for slow development in UP. He said he had seen the kind of hardship people in Bundelkhand faced and met the prime minister for allocation of a special package, but the UP CM neither bothered to visit the region nor took any remedial measures.
"In fact, Mayawati had even declined the offer and said UP did not need MNREGS," Rahul said. He was trying to ensure that the funds allocated to UP reached the beneficiaries and that UP could be brought at par with other sates, he said, and added that his confrontation with BSP would continue till the time Mayawati was ousted.
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