UPCC today felicitated Congress MPs elected from the state in the 15th general elections at a function organised in Lucknow.
UPCC today felicitated Congress MPs elected from the state in the 15th general elections at a function organised in Lucknow.
Most of the elected MPs, barring a few including Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, attended the felicitation function, which was attended by senior party leaders including AICC general secretary and UP incharge Digvijay Singh, national secretaries Parvez Hashmi and Avinash Pandey.
Addressing the function, UPCC chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi said, "Whatever had happened in Lucknow in past one week is sheer mockery of democracy. The chief minister acted like a dictator and instead of taking her defeat in Lok Sabha poll in a positive stride, Mayawati attacked the Congress leaders."
Referring to attack and arson on her house allegedly by BSP workers, Joshi said that she would not accept anything less than a CBI probe into the incident. She also said that the party high command's decision to contest Lok Sabha polls on its own in the state paid rich dividends, as the party won 21 seats after a gap of more than two decades.
"When discussions were being held on alliance in UP, the party had decided that senior Congress leaders should get seats. Then it was proposed that the party should contest on its own and I am happy that the high command accepted the proposal," the UPCC chief said.
Joshi said that had the same decision been taken earlier, then the Congress would have wrested atleast 40 seats in UP. Union minister of state for Petroleum Jitin Prasad said that torching Joshi's house tantamounted to the murder of democracy.
"Where all the funds allocated to the state had gone," Prasad asked. Union minister of state for Rural Development Pradeep Jain Aditya said that the state government had failed on all fronts.
"Schemes are being implemented by the Centre and this year Rs7,000 crore will be released to UP under NREGS. It is unfortunate that the state failed to utilise Rs1,125 crore allocated to it earlier," he said.
The Union minister also said that while the state was facing severe drought, the government had no plans to combat the situation.
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