Gonda, UP:
Kicking off her election campaign in Uttar Pradesh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today attacked Chief Minister Mayawati for dismissing her ministers on election eve and asked whether this has cleansed her government.
"The present Chief Minister dismissed 21 of her ministers on election eve. She was not able to see their corruption in the past five years. I want to ask whether taking resignations made her government clean," she said.
"Is this not cheating the people...not an attempt to cheat the people," Mrs Gandhi asked.
Lashing out at non-Congress governments over the past 22 years in the state, she said that they have all ruined Uttar Pradesh where there has been no one to hear their voices as people of these parties have been involved in misdeeds.
"These parties have done nothing for the state during their governments, they have, however, filled their own pockets", she said adding that though there had been a lot of change and development in the country and the world, UP has been ruined by these non-Congress governments.
Recalling the various coalition governments in the state, she said that though all these parties have joined hands for opportunism and are the same, she can bet that hers is the only political party which has never compromised with those dividing society.
"The present Chief Minister dismissed 21 of her ministers on election eve. She was not able to see their corruption in the past five years. I want to ask whether taking resignations made her government clean," she said.
"Is this not cheating the people...not an attempt to cheat the people," Mrs Gandhi asked.
Lashing out at non-Congress governments over the past 22 years in the state, she said that they have all ruined Uttar Pradesh where there has been no one to hear their voices as people of these parties have been involved in misdeeds.
"These parties have done nothing for the state during their governments, they have, however, filled their own pockets", she said adding that though there had been a lot of change and development in the country and the world, UP has been ruined by these non-Congress governments.
Recalling the various coalition governments in the state, she said that though all these parties have joined hands for opportunism and are the same, she can bet that hers is the only political party which has never compromised with those dividing society.
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