Rahul Gandhi- Manmohan Singh rail at Mayawati at Uttar Pradesh rally

Prime minister Manmohan Singh and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi virtually joined forces at a Congress rally on Saturday to berate the Mayawati government over lack of development in the Bundelkhand region of southern UP. The Dalit icon also lost no time in hitting back with a salvo, saying the Centre was responsible for the lack of development in this area.

Rahul Gandhi was the star speaker at a well-attended Congress rally in Banda, the centre of the Bundelkhand region in UP. The region has been a traditional Congress bastion since Independence, and the party is seeking to build up on its election campaign for the 2012 UP assembly poll from here.

“It is strange that the voices of the people of Bundelkhand crying out for development reach Delhi, but the government sitting in Lucknow is unable to hear them,” Rahul said.