Lashing out at non-Congress governments of Uttar Pradesh for "selling Ram, caste and religion" for the past 22 years, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi today asked voters to give five years to his party for development of the state.
"These parties have looted your hard earned money, sold Ram, religion and caste...never talked about progress and development in the past 22 years," Gandhi said addressing an election meeting here.
The Congress general secretary said that he visits other states marching ahead on the path of progress and see people of the state contributing and the lack of development is UP fills him with anger.
Attacking the BJP for its India Shining slogan of 2004 and Samajwadi Party for embracing former BJP leader Kalyan Singh, he said that his party has stood alone and never embraced people like Kalyan Singh and would not do so ever.
Stressing that he would not budge till the state's progress is in place, Gandhi said that there was a need to think of the future, which leaders of Uttar Pradesh were not doing.
Establishing a direct contact with the audience, Gandhi sought the names of a few and got others to raise their hands during his address.
Telling the audience that the mobile phone in the hands of people in villages was a result of forward looking thinking of his father, late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, he said that he was told about it (mobile phone) when he was 12 or 15 years old that the day phone reached villages they would wake up.
Addressing rallies in Faizabad and Barabanki, Rahul Gandhi said the Congress pumps money through schemes in UP but the BSP's magic elephant eats it all.
"But now this elephant will be moved from Lucknow," he said.
Targeting the SP, Rahul said three-time Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has punctured hopes of the poor.
Mulayam speaks more and delivers less, he said. Both the SP and the BSP talk only about cycle and elephant and are not concerned about the development of Uttar Pradesh, the Congress leader said.
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