The Congress-BSP battle in Uttar Pradesh shows no signs of abating, with neither side willing to take a step back.
NEW DELHI: The Congress-BSP battle in Uttar Pradesh shows no signs of abating, with neither side willing to take a step back. A day after UP chief minister Mayawati announced plans to hold a rally in Sonia Gandhi’s stronghold of Rae Bareli; the Congress announced plans of a protest march from Lalganj to Lucknow, the heart of Mayawati’s power base.
The march to Lucknow will be preceded by protest rallies in each assembly segment of Rae Bareli against the cancellation of land allotment for the proposed rail coach factory. Rae Bareli residents will even present the district magistrate a memorandum demanding setting up of the rail coach factory.
According the AICC general secretary in charge of UP, Digvijay Singh, the party will also highlight all the schemes sanctioned by the UPA government for the area, especially Rae Bareli and Amethi, and also educate the people on how the UP chief minis3ter had tried to scuttle them. The protest march will be led by Digvijay Singh and UPCC chief Rita Bahuguna, besides other senior leaders from UP. “We will not bow before her vindictiveness. She can put all of us in jail if she wants,” said Digvijay Singh.
The Congress party has decided on a calibrated approach to take on the BSP. Rather than make it into a Mayawati versus Sonia Gandhi fight, the party plans to adopt a political approach by raising issues and highlighting the vindictiveness of the BSP supremo’s approach.
“She has been riding roughshod over everybody in the state. We want to involve all those who have been victims of her high-handedness,” says Pervez Hashmi, the AICC secretary in charge of UP. The plan is to take the fight right into her power base by puncturing her claims to be the only representative of the dalits.
j_ansari@dnaindia.net
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