For the past five years, neither BSP supremo Mayawati nor SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav had visited any village but now during the election time, they were making tall promises, Rahul said.
Training his guns on the BSP and the Samajwadi Party, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today said corruption and scams were rampant during their regimes.
For the past five years, neither BSP supremo Mayawati nor SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav had visited any village but now during the election time, they were making tall promises, Rahul said.
"When they were in power only corruption and scams were witnessed. The promises made by them at the election time are misleading," he told an election meeting here.
Wooing voters especially the youngsters, the Congress general secretary said "the state will witness a change due to the youth power."
Rahul said he had got a pacakage of Rs8,000 crore for the Bundeklhand region but the tractors meant for farmers were taken away by the elephant (BSP's poll symbol) in Lucknow.
In an apparent reference to Babu Singh Kushwaha, he said by taking the "corrupt BSP minister, the BJP vows to fight graft."
Referring to backwardness and unemployment in Uttar Pradesh, Rahul said its people go to other states due to dearth of employment opportunities here.
"I will continue to fight for the cause of poor farmers and labourers till their migration ceases," he said.
The Gandhi scion reiterated his promise of changing the state in five years time if his party was voted to power in UP.
Addressing an election rally in Allahabad, Rahul Gandhi asked voters to be beware of all those political parties which were making tall promises to the people.
He accused the BJP, the SP and the BSP of taking the people for a ride saying "it is election time and these parties are making all sorts of promises and claims."
Referring to the first two rounds of the assembly poll in UP, Rahul said people were coming out in large numbers to vote for a change.
"This is indicative of people's resolve to usher in a change and vote the Congress to power," he told the rally inside the premises of a hostel of the Allahabad University.
The government at the Centre, led by the Congress, had given billions of rupees to Uttar Pradesh for betterment of villages and improving the urban infrastructure, Rahul said.
"But things have remained the same as the funds were eaten up by the elephant," he said.
Turning to the BJP, Rahul said "it has come up with a fantastic idea that it will develop the impoverished region of Bundelkhand on the so-called Israel model."
"But, the people of Bundelkhand are crying for more water and are not interested in Israeli-type model," the Congress general secretary said.
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