The AICC general secretary taunted Mayawati saying poll-bound UP has decided to "throw away" this elephant.
"An elephant sitting in Lucknow is eating all your money," Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said at a rally in Uttar Pradesh on Friday, stepping up his attack on Chief Minister Mayawati while alluding to her party BSP's symbol.
Rahul, who has set a hectic pace ahead of the UP Assembly elections, also trained his guns at the BJP for its slogan of "India Shining" saying that India would not shine till there was even a single poor in the country .
Blasting the UP government for alleged misuse of central funds, he said, "an elephant sitting in Lucknow is eating away all your money sent by the Centre for the benefit of poor in UP."
Taunting Mayawati, he said this time UP has decided to throw out this "elephant" and went on to add that Congress has to be brought to power as only it knows how to run the government.
Rahul prefaced his attack on the BSP supremo by saying that there is no dearth of funds in the country and that UP can get as much money as it needed.
"What is lacking is that money doesn't reach you," he said.
Rahul also did not spare the BJP. "In 2004 when Congress gave the slogan of aam aadmi garibo, pichro ki sarkar, opposition gave the slogan of India shining," Rahul said at meetings in these districts on the fourth day of his five-day long mass contact programme.
"They can give this slogan as they do not go to your houses, not have food with you, drink water of your wells, they can say India is shining", Gandhi said.
The Congress leader said that though there had been progress but India is not shining in the villages and small towns and it cannot shine till the day there is even a single poor . "It would shine only when there is not a single poor person visible in the country", he asserted.
Attacking senior leaders who sit in TV studios and debate that India is shining , he said that it is shining in their houses and airconditioned big vehicles but not in villages and on the roads.
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