Uttar Pradesh: BSP weeded out dacoits in Chitrakoot, says Mayawati

LUCKNOW: Addressing a rally in Banda on Thursday, BSP chief Mayawati said that her government weeded dacoits out of the region and brought peace to Chitrakoot.

“In Chitrakoot division, which has districts like Banda, there was always an environment of fear when the Samajwadi Party was in power. People of Banda are aware that before the BSP came to power this area was overrun with dacoits, villages used to be emptied out and people were migrating to other places not due to paucity of means of livelihood but due to fear of dacoits. BSP ended the rule of the dacoits and established peace here,” she said.

Hitting out at the SP, Mayawati said that before 2007, when the BSP came to power in UP with a full majority, development had been limited to just one community and one area. Dalits and most backward castes were met with biased treatment and out of political spite, the SP changed names of all districts, schemes and places which the BSP government had named after Dalit icons as a mark of honour. “We would also like to tell government employees that when a bill on reservation in promotion was introduced in Parliament, the SP members tore the bill and did not allow it to be passed, thereby ensuring that Dalits do not get the advantage of such a law.

Similarly, the working of the BJP government has been largely casteist and favouring industrialists where it has been trying to implement the narrow agenda of RSS. In the name of religion, BJP has ensured a tense and hateful environment. Crime has also gone up significantly under their government,” she said.

Promising a change if the BSP came to power again, she that nobody would be harassed in the name of religion or caste as is being done under the BJP government.

Courtesy: Times of india

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