Lucknow: BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday alleged that price rise and corruption were two sins of the Congress.

"There is resentment among people on the issue of price rise and corruption -- two sins of the Congress.

"These problems are due to wrong economic policies and bad governance," he told an election meeting after flagging off BJP leader Uma Bharti's rath.

Targeting the SP and the BSP, Gadkari said these parties had supported the Congress-led UPA government time and again.

In this context, he said the SP and the BSP supported the Congress in the Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC) on the 2G spectrum issue.

"They support the Congress on cut motions, they support it in the PAC. They supported the sins of the party," the BJP president said.

He accused the Congress party of spreading poison of communalism by pursuing vote-bank politics.

The Constitution was opposed to religion-based reservation, Gadkari said. "The Constitution does not permit it, but they brought it for the division of the country."

The BJP president said the SP, the BSP and Mayawati, who calls herself a messiah of dalits, were trying hard to get minority votes.

"All the three are searching their brains on how to get minority votes," he said.

Attacking the Congress, Gadkari said "how it will develop Uttar Pradesh when it has ruined the country."

He said the BJP was the only alternative for the people.

Uma Bharti said the Congress and its leaders should give clarifications on their sins.

PTI