The Uttar Pradesh chief minister says Maharashtra has earned a bad name in crime in recent times.
Bahujan Samaj Party leader and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati blasted the Congress-led central government and said her government has been targeted just because it is led by a Dalit woman. She said none of the Congress-led state governments are doing satisfactory job. “That includes Maharashtra too,” she said.
The chief minister said that whenever any incident of atrocity or a law and order-related issue takes place in UP, the central government and the Congress waste no time in highlighting it at the national level with the help of the media. “But, look at the Congress-led states like Haryana and Delhi, they are not behind any other state in such cases. For that matter, Maharashtra too has earned a bad name in the past few years for the criminal cases that took place here,” she added.
She talked about the Dalit family in Vidarbha which she said is still pleading for justice even after most of its family members were killed in a heinous case of atrocity a few years ago.
A government officer was burnt alive by the oil mafia a few months ago while the killers of senior journalist J Dey are at large even after two weeks of the incident, she said. “There are cases that happened in Haryana and Delhi creating a serious threat to the law and order situation recently. But the Centre attacks only the UP government if any criminal case takes place. This is happening just because the government is led by a Dalit woman.” She was referring to the Bhatta-Parsaul incidents for which Congress had held her government responsible.
Mayawati is on a two-day tour of the city. She inaugurated her party’s state headquarters office at Chembur on Saturday and is addressing a rally of workers from Maharashtra and Gujarat at Goregaon on Sunday.
Mayawati has also demanded roll back of the price hike of petroleum product prices. “We are writing a letter to the Central government demanding a roll back of the prices as it will badly affect the lower-middle and middle class of the country,” she said. “The government has no sympathy towards the common man and it is engaged in safeguarding the interests of the industrialists and the upper middle class.”
She also demanded that instead of rising the rates of the petro products that results in the rising inflation, the central government should think of a rise in the prices of liquor and tobacco products.
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