Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati addressing a press conference in Lucknow on Saturday, June 4, 2016. (Press Trust of India photo)
Lucknow:
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati today lashed out at the Modi government at the Centre, saying it was just tom-tomming its "hollow" programmes to mislead the people and said "bad days" are on the anvil for the BJP dispensation.
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister also targeted her guns at the Samajwadi Party government for the Mathura violence and demanded a CBI or court-monitored probe into the deadly incident.
During a nearly hour-long interaction with mediapersons in Lucknow, the BSP chief slammed Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav for not taking the Mathura violence seriously.
"Rather than touring Bundelkhand, he should have been visiting Mathura today," she said, and demanded a judicial or Supreme Court-monitored or CBI probe into the incident.
Mr Yadav is on an official visit to Mahoba in Bundelkhand.
24 people, including an SP and SHO, were killed in clashes between police and members of a sect who had encroached on government land in Mathura on Thursday.
Slamming the programmes to celebrate two years of Modi government, she said the BJP-led dispensation had nothing to take credit for and was just tom-tomming its "hollow" programmes to mislead the people.
"Forget about acche din, now the bure din of government are coming (forget the promise of good days, now bad days are on the cards for the government)," she said.
"Don't fall prey to the catchy slogas of Modi government. NDA has failed to keep its promises made before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections," she said, adding its sympathy towards the poor was "artificial and just on paper".
The BJP's countdown has begun while in Uttar Pradesh the fight between ruling SP and BJP would be for the second spot as her party would storm to power in 2017, she said.
Describing BJP and Congress as two sides of the same coin, she said the NDA government's policies and programmes were same as those of the UPA.
Criticising BJP president Amit Shah for sharing food with Dalits in Varanasi, she said such "gimmicks" do not work or get translated into votes.
"BJP should diminish such ideas from its mind," she said.
She claimed that atrocities on Dalits were increasing in Uttar Pradesh as well as all over the country and cited the Rohith Vemula case where, she said, justice has not been given to the family so far.
"After coming to power with full majority, instead of constructing memorials and parks, BSP will this time concentrate especially on law and order and development," she said.
She also accused the Congress and BJP of depriving Dalits of reservation rights.
She alleged that as a part of conspiracy, work of ministries were being given to private sector where reservation was not applicable.
"BJP is following the footprints of Congress on every issue. Its promise of bringing back black money and depositing in the accounts of poor has also proved hollow," she said.
"While the first year of Modi government will be known for being anti-farmer, the second year will be remembered as anti-welfare and anti-people," she said.
The BSP chief said the NDA government was misleading people in the name of economic reforms. "It has ignored the poor, downtrodden, Dalits, Muslims and other religious minorities.
She said that BJP and SP could conspire to disturb the communal harmony in the state for "electoral gains" but the people have now started understanding these strategies and the two parties would not succeed in their intentions.
She accused the BJP government at the Centre of appeasing hardline organisations associated with the RSS, adding that all the schemes of the Centre aimed to benefit capitalists.
The former UP chief minister also attacked Governor Ram Naik saying he was touring districts like the chief minister and doing publicity work for the BJP.
She added that by justifying the arms-training camps conducted by the Bajrang Dal, the Governor has shown that his actions were politically motivated.
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister also targeted her guns at the Samajwadi Party government for the Mathura violence and demanded a CBI or court-monitored probe into the deadly incident.
During a nearly hour-long interaction with mediapersons in Lucknow, the BSP chief slammed Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav for not taking the Mathura violence seriously.
"Rather than touring Bundelkhand, he should have been visiting Mathura today," she said, and demanded a judicial or Supreme Court-monitored or CBI probe into the incident.
Mr Yadav is on an official visit to Mahoba in Bundelkhand.
24 people, including an SP and SHO, were killed in clashes between police and members of a sect who had encroached on government land in Mathura on Thursday.
Slamming the programmes to celebrate two years of Modi government, she said the BJP-led dispensation had nothing to take credit for and was just tom-tomming its "hollow" programmes to mislead the people.
"Forget about acche din, now the bure din of government are coming (forget the promise of good days, now bad days are on the cards for the government)," she said.
"Don't fall prey to the catchy slogas of Modi government. NDA has failed to keep its promises made before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections," she said, adding its sympathy towards the poor was "artificial and just on paper".
The BJP's countdown has begun while in Uttar Pradesh the fight between ruling SP and BJP would be for the second spot as her party would storm to power in 2017, she said.
Describing BJP and Congress as two sides of the same coin, she said the NDA government's policies and programmes were same as those of the UPA.
Criticising BJP president Amit Shah for sharing food with Dalits in Varanasi, she said such "gimmicks" do not work or get translated into votes.
"BJP should diminish such ideas from its mind," she said.
She claimed that atrocities on Dalits were increasing in Uttar Pradesh as well as all over the country and cited the Rohith Vemula case where, she said, justice has not been given to the family so far.
"After coming to power with full majority, instead of constructing memorials and parks, BSP will this time concentrate especially on law and order and development," she said.
She also accused the Congress and BJP of depriving Dalits of reservation rights.
She alleged that as a part of conspiracy, work of ministries were being given to private sector where reservation was not applicable.
"BJP is following the footprints of Congress on every issue. Its promise of bringing back black money and depositing in the accounts of poor has also proved hollow," she said.
"While the first year of Modi government will be known for being anti-farmer, the second year will be remembered as anti-welfare and anti-people," she said.
The BSP chief said the NDA government was misleading people in the name of economic reforms. "It has ignored the poor, downtrodden, Dalits, Muslims and other religious minorities.
She said that BJP and SP could conspire to disturb the communal harmony in the state for "electoral gains" but the people have now started understanding these strategies and the two parties would not succeed in their intentions.
She accused the BJP government at the Centre of appeasing hardline organisations associated with the RSS, adding that all the schemes of the Centre aimed to benefit capitalists.
The former UP chief minister also attacked Governor Ram Naik saying he was touring districts like the chief minister and doing publicity work for the BJP.
She added that by justifying the arms-training camps conducted by the Bajrang Dal, the Governor has shown that his actions were politically motivated.
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