Lucknow: Terming President Pratibha Patil's
address to the joint session of the Parliament as
"directionless", Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today
said it was a jugglery of figures aimed at "misleading" the
common people.
In a statement issued here, Mayawati said though the
address promises to provide relief to the common people, the
works undertaken by the UPA government so far indicate
hollowness of promises like these.
The chief minister said that the aim for achieving eight
per cent rate of development in the address was a mere
rhetoric whereas the reality is the UPA government has failed
on all fronts.
Nothing has been said on providing relief to farmers in
the address, she said adding that the policies of the UPA have
always benefited hoarders and black marketeers.
There had been no uplift in the social, economic and
academic condition of ST, ST and OBC since the past 50 years,
Mayawati said.
Expressing surprise over what she termed as "back
patting" by the Centre on the NREGS, she said it seems that
the UPA government wants the people to remain poor or else it
would had devised ways for providing them with permanent jobs
throughout the year to improve their lot.
She said the UPA government has also failed to combat
terrorism and Naxalism.
On the price rise issue, she said it is a result of the
UPA's faulty economic policies.
-PTI
First Published: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 00:31